Health and Social Innovative Development Scenarios in Efforts to Support Aging Society in the Future
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Documentary research aims to synthesize and recommend research issues under the scenario of health and social innovation over 15 years from 190 Thai research samples related to aging. Statistical analysis relies on content analysis. The result found that the first perspective axis represents the complex structure of an aging society, where development is either concentrated with prototypes or distributed evenly at the grassroots level. The second perspective axis represents the innovation model designed to support an aging society. The work or methods in single-dimensional or multi-dimensional innovations can be synthesized to be: 1) innovation to support a single-dimensional aging society that is dominated by prototypes that research issues including elderly business models, health innovation in caring for and treating predominant elderly diseases, long-term health care systems, and the Internet of Things, 2) innovation to support an aging society in various dimensions led by prototypes that address research issues consisting of works in the digital age, information technology channels, lifelong learning platforms, and care models for self-reliance, 3) innovation to support a single-dimensional aging society distributed at the grassroots level, which research issues including social adaptation, aging engagement, and sandbox environment, and 4) innovation supports an aging society with many dimensions distributed at the grassroots level, in which research issues include databases and quality of life for the elderly with community-based.
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