Alleviating Factors of Loneliness in Elderly People Living in Cities Assisted by Smart Homes: The Role of Enhancing Self-worth
摘要
With the deepening of aging, the psychological condition of the elderly is receiving more and more attention. This study aims to explore the factors that smart homes assist urban older adults in alleviating loneliness, highlighting the role of enhancing older adults’ sense of self-worth in alleviating loneliness. This study adopts grounded theory, conducts one-on-one interviews with 15 older adults through in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis methods, and constructs a theoretical model through three-level coding analysis, which finds that older adults can alleviate loneliness by enhancing their sense of self-worth, and that smart homes assist in alleviating loneliness. In addition, it is proposed to design an AR kitchen smart cooking system to alleviate loneliness and enhance the sense of well-being and self-worth of the elderly, and to conduct a usability questionnaire survey on the system to explore the construction of smart homes for the well-being of the elderly.