Modern Social Science Research

As the aging process continues to deepen, it has posed a systemic challenge to Chinas economic and social development. The traditional model of elderly care services is no longer adequate to meet the diverse needs of a modern society. In the era of digital technology restructuring the way society operates, smart elderly care as an innovative transformation direction has shown great potential, but the lack of professional talent reserves is becoming a core bottleneck restricting the industrys breakthrough. This study focuses on the talent development issues in the field of smart elderly care, reveals the structural contradictions of supply and demand imbalance through empirical research, and innovatively constructs a compound talent ability model that includes three dimensions: technology application, service innovation, and system management. Then, it proposes systematic solutions from three levels: education system innovation, career development channel construction, and policy guarantee mechanism, providing an operational practical path for solving the talent dilemma in smart elderly care.

Smart elderly care; Talent cultivation; Vocational education