Happiness IT platform for Active & Happy Ageing(AHA)
Y. H. Ro
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AbstractPhysical aging and cognitive decline are inevitable for everyone as they age. Maintaining homeostasis like young men pursued by the existing medical index, cannot be achievable for ageing people. Regardless of functional aging, maintaining and enhancement of his/her own happiness are an obligation, not just a right as a human being(Francois Lelord, 2010). In 2014, the Korean government announced nine strategic projects and four base projects nationwide to accomplish the “Creative Economy Policy” led by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. “Personalized Wellness Care Service” is one of those, and it included both Medical IT and Wellness IT, using convergent technologies by creating the innovative industry ecosystem. Based on the Wellness IT strategies, this paper presents definitions of Wellness IT, 10 happy factors, service design process, business model canvas, and the ‘Happiness IT Platform’ as a distribution channel to meet demand and supply. This paper may be useful not only for the government in terms of designing budget-oriented welfare services, but also for SMEs in terms of business modeling to generate high value-added and data driven solutions.Keywords: wellness, wellbeing, happiness, happiness IT platform, happy factors, distribution channel
Y. H. Ro (2022). Happiness IT platform for Active & Happy Ageing(AHA). Gerontechnology, 21(s),1-1
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2022.21.s.746.opp6