Selected as a national-level project! Smart rehabilitation assistive devices usher in new opportunities! A project in the field of elderly care and disability assistance by the Ministry of Civil Affairs was selected as one of the first batch of landmark major application scenario projects.

On October 20, the ‘Intelligent Rehabilitation Assistive Devices Industrialization Scenario Construction Project in the Field of Elderly Care and Disability Assistance’ declared by the Ministry of Civil Affairs was included in the first batch of landmark major application scenario projects at the national level, and is organized and implemented under the leadership of the National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids.

Positioned in the strategic emerging industry of rehabilitation assistive devices, the project takes the verification and application of intelligent rehabilitation assistive devices as its carrier and民生 scenarios of elderly care and disability assistance as the first-launch verification ground. It builds a two-tier service network of ‘intelligent rehabilitation assistive device city reception halls + community nearby service outlets,’ promoting rehabilitation assistive device products from technical products to mature commodities and from local pilots to nationwide application, striving to improve the quality of elderly care and disability assistance services, cultivate new momentum for the silver economy, and lead the upgrading of health consumption.

The intelligent rehabilitation assistive device city reception hall is the core hub of regional scenarios, where display and experience, product verification, assessment and configuration, technical training, and supply-demand matching of intelligent rehabilitation assistive devices are carried out in a concentrated manner. Users experience cutting-edge technologies here, and product providers can collect frontline usage feedback and drive product iteration; professional technicians conduct service training here, output standardized service plans, and extend them to various community sites.

Community nearby service outlets are service tentacles rooted at the doorsteps of the people, delivering basic services such as simple configuration, leasing and maintenance, and usage guidance of rehabilitation assistive devices to the masses, achieving nearby configuration, nearby publicity, nearby service, and nearby after-sales, so that people in need can reach them on foot and enjoy convenient rehabilitation assistive device services at their doorsteps.

The project connects the grassroots people at one end and industrial innovation at the other. Relying on scenario-driven empowerment, the project uses the two-tier service network to open up the two-way chain between people’s livelihood and industrial innovation, filling the ‘last mile’ gap in elderly care and disability assistance services and providing full-chain support for enterprises, striving to exceed a industrial scale of 1 trillion yuan by 2028.

A relevant official from the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs introduced that next, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will continue to play a coordinating role, continuously increase the opening up of scenarios in the field of elderly care and disability assistance, promote rehabilitation assistive devices into communities, families, and institutions, transform rich people’s livelihood scenario resources into industrial innovation advantages, and make high-quality rehabilitation assistive device services close to the people and within reach, effectively enhancing the sense of gain, happiness, and security of special groups such as the elderly and persons with disabilities.