Author: Dr. Lanning Tian, Chairwoman of Zhongguancun SSIDC Smart Health and Senior Care Industrial Alliance

I. Basic concepts and their underlying logic form a complex and extensive system.
 
The most fundamental concepts and their underlying logic in knowledge comprise a complex and extensive system that requires us to re-learn. This is also something that professional care organizations and IT companies need to re-learn before the coming wave of aging. It is crucial to clarify knowledge structures and term logic, not only for front-line care workers in the elderly care industry but also for all aspects of IT companies.
 
II. From Cure to Care: The Transformation of Health Concepts
 
In the era of aging, there are some trends that we may follow, but we need to have a clear understanding of the academic logic behind them. As for the necessity of the concept of long-term care, the process of change from cure to care is, in fact, a transformation of the big health concept and the medical model. The holistic view of human problems that we form after a deep understanding of the human body has been inherited. When we talk about the issue of care today, it should no longer be an unfamiliar term, nor should there be any debate about whether it should be "nursing" or "care". Our perspective should move from the medical scene to the social scene, considering what the real goal, method, and means of true health are. Its philosophy is actually a global consensus, and everyone is moving towards a healthy concept.
 
III. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is an organic tree of life.
 
For IT companies, when designing future systems for artificial intelligence, medical information, or health management, the vast elderly population must be taken into account. We need the ICF, which is the World Health Organization's medical classification system, to classify from function, disability, and health, like an organic tree of life. For care workers, we need to increase the existing 22-item ability assessment project and understand the business logic and data structure behind it. When learning international standards, we need to see the structure behind them. During implementation, we can use past experiences, but we must understand the closeness of the method and structure behind them. Only with structure can we truly obtain information from assessment data, summarize and analyze it, and propose improvement goals and methods. This is the core.
 
Through the promotion of international standards, we hope to have more colleagues to discuss, learn and implement together, and apply the best international experience and the most powerful results of human joint research to our work, which will enable us to have goals, methods, and paths in our work.