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[Purpose/Significance] China has entered the aging society since 2000 and China's elderly population is increasing rapidly., The degree of aging is growing severely, and the pressure on social security and public services is increasing. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the degree of aging in China will be from mild to moderate, the population structural contradiction centered on population aging is becoming increasingly prominent, and the demand structure of the elderly is changing from the survival-type to the development-type. In order to implement the national strategy and relevant national policies and regulations to actively respond to the aging population and fulfill the mission of public libraries, public libraries should further study how to better serve the elderly. [Method/Process] The paper conducts literature review of the current studies on public library services to the elderly. The main research methods in this field include questionnaire survey and case analysis. The research topics include study of the elderly, service, service system and service facility to the elderly. Among them, the research of service to elderly includes theme space and theme branch library construction, outreach service, health information service, reference service, user education and training, digital service, information literacy service, volunteer service and intergenerational service project. [Results/Conclusions] There are some problems in the existing research, such as a lack of standardization, the need to strengthen the scientific data collection method and a lack of in-depth research. In the future, efforts should be made to improve the norm of research and improve the data collection methods, such as paying attention to the rationality of sampling methods and the compatibility between the research methods and research questions, using in-depth interviews and other research methods, increasing in-depth case analysis, and comprehensively applying a variety of research methods. Efforts are needed to study the elderly group to effectively promote the match between the elderly service supply and user demand in public libraries. In order to adapt to the national conditions of aging in China and the characteristics of the elderly, efforts are needed to innovate service models from the aspects of service publicity and promotion, helping the elderly with digital intelligence, outreach service, intergenerational services, and social integration. There is also a need to evaluate the effectiveness of services to the elderly and develop the elderly service standards to provide guidelines for services for the elderly, and promote service experience. The construction of information resources adapted to the characteristics of the elderly population should be carried out to improve the level of service guarantee for the elderly.

[Purpose/Significance] With the development of politics and economy, the public's attention to health information has significantly increased. The public's behavior of searching, sharing, avoiding, and collaborating on health information has attracted widespread attention. In the ubiquitous information environment, the impact of information behavior interactivity is also gradually increasing. The conflict and control of interpersonal information behavior are gradually receiving attention. Among various types of interpersonal relationships, conflicts and controls in family health information behavior are more prominent, with intergenerational conflicts and controls being the most typical. Therefore, taking the intergenerational relationship between parents and children as the starting point, this paper explores the causes of intergenerational conflict health information behavior and its mechanism in the implementation/response process of social control. An analysis of intergenerational conflict health information behavior can provide assistance for the public to better handle intergenerational relationships, improve the efficiency of parent-child health information communication, and provide certain reference for research on interpersonal health information behavior based on interactivity. [Method/Process] On the basis of literature review, centering on the interactive characteristics of intergenerational health information behavior, from the perspective of information conflict and social control, and taking the whole process of health information behavior interaction of different subjects as the underlying logic, this paper puts forward five core issues. A questionnaire was designed based on the core questions. From the perspective of parents as implementers of control behavior, we investigated the attitudes and reactions of children towards family conflict health information behavior. From the perspective of children as implementers of control behavior, we investigated parents' attitudes and responses to conflict health information behavior in their families. [Results/Conclusions] It is found that there are differences among family members in the information acquisition situation, information source selection and judgment in the preparatory process of implementing/responding to social control. In the process of implementing/responding to social control, family members will choose different ways to implement/respond to different social control, such as information sharing, information evaluation, information avoidance, and information utilization. After implementing/coping with social control, compared with children, parents' sharing behavior and control behavior are more likely to be affected by children's attitudes. Intergenerational conflict health information behavior plays an important role in the implementation/response process of social control. Based on the analysis, the analysis model of intergenerational conflict health information behavior was constructed, and the causes of intergenerational conflict health information behavior and its mechanism in the implementation of social control were explained to some extent. Interpersonal communication is an important means to alleviate intergenerational health information conflict. In the future, qualitative research methods can be used to supplement and improve the model, and more in-depth research and exploration can be conducted around issues such as intergenerational conflict health information behavior and intergenerational information communication.

[Purpose/Significance] China has entered the aging society since 2000 and China's elderly population is increasing rapidly., The degree of aging is growing severely, and the pressure on social security and public services is increasing. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the degree of aging in China will be from mild to moderate, the population structural contradiction centered on population aging is becoming increasingly prominent, and the demand structure of the elderly is changing from the survival-type to the development-type. In order to implement the national strategy and relevant national policies and regulations to actively respond to the aging population and fulfill the mission of public libraries, public libraries should further study how to better serve the elderly. [Method/Process] The paper conducts literature review of the current studies on public library services to the elderly. The main research methods in this field include questionnaire survey and case analysis. The research topics include study of the elderly, service, service system and service facility to the elderly. Among them, the research of service to elderly includes theme space and theme branch library construction, outreach service, health information service, reference service, user education and training, digital service, information literacy service, volunteer service and intergenerational service project. [Results/Conclusions] There are some problems in the existing research, such as a lack of standardization, the need to strengthen the scientific data collection method and a lack of in-depth research. In the future, efforts should be made to improve the norm of research and improve the data collection methods, such as paying attention to the rationality of sampling methods and the compatibility between the research methods and research questions, using in-depth interviews and other research methods, increasing in-depth case analysis, and comprehensively applying a variety of research methods. Efforts are needed to study the elderly group to effectively promote the match between the elderly service supply and user demand in public libraries. In order to adapt to the national conditions of aging in China and the characteristics of the elderly, efforts are needed to innovate service models from the aspects of service publicity and promotion, helping the elderly with digital intelligence, outreach service, intergenerational services, and social integration. There is also a need to evaluate the effectiveness of services to the elderly and develop the elderly service standards to provide guidelines for services for the elderly, and promote service experience. The construction of information resources adapted to the characteristics of the elderly population should be carried out to improve the level of service guarantee for the elderly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Purpose/Significance] With the development of politics and economy, the public's attention to health information has significantly increased. The public's behavior of searching, sharing, avoiding, and collaborating on health information has attracted widespread attention. In the ubiquitous information environment, the impact of information behavior interactivity is also gradually increasing. The conflict and control of interpersonal information behavior are gradually receiving attention. Among various types of interpersonal relationships, conflicts and controls in family health information behavior are more prominent, with intergenerational conflicts and controls being the most typical. Therefore, taking the intergenerational relationship between parents and children as the starting point, this paper explores the causes of intergenerational conflict health information behavior and its mechanism in the implementation/response process of social control. An analysis of intergenerational conflict health information behavior can provide assistance for the public to better handle intergenerational relationships, improve the efficiency of parent-child health information communication, and provide certain reference for research on interpersonal health information behavior based on interactivity. [Method/Process] On the basis of literature review, centering on the interactive characteristics of intergenerational health information behavior, from the perspective of information conflict and social control, and taking the whole process of health information behavior interaction of different subjects as the underlying logic, this paper puts forward five core issues. A questionnaire was designed based on the core questions. From the perspective of parents as implementers of control behavior, we investigated the attitudes and reactions of children towards family conflict health information behavior. From the perspective of children as implementers of control behavior, we investigated parents' attitudes and responses to conflict health information behavior in their families. [Results/Conclusions] It is found that there are differences among family members in the information acquisition situation, information source selection and judgment in the preparatory process of implementing/responding to social control. In the process of implementing/responding to social control, family members will choose different ways to implement/respond to different social control, such as information sharing, information evaluation, information avoidance, and information utilization. After implementing/coping with social control, compared with children, parents' sharing behavior and control behavior are more likely to be affected by children's attitudes. Intergenerational conflict health information behavior plays an important role in the implementation/response process of social control. Based on the analysis, the analysis model of intergenerational conflict health information behavior was constructed, and the causes of intergenerational conflict health information behavior and its mechanism in the implementation of social control were explained to some extent. Interpersonal communication is an important means to alleviate intergenerational health information conflict. In the future, qualitative research methods can be used to supplement and improve the model, and more in-depth research and exploration can be conducted around issues such as intergenerational conflict health information behavior and intergenerational information communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Purpose/Significance] This paper takes the elderly aged 60 and above in Guangxi as the research object to explore the factors that affect their adoption of information technology for pandemic prevention and control. It is helpful to improve the elderly's ability to apply information technology, and promote the construction and development of information technology to prevent a pandemic. [Method/Process] Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model, this paper added pandemic risk perception, technology anxiety, resistance to change as new variables to construct the model of influencing factors of the elderly's adoption intention of information technology for COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, designed and collected 210 valid questionnaires, used SPSS 21.0 software to finish the descriptive statistical analysis, and used SmartPLS 3.0 software to finish the reliability and validity analysis of the questionnaires, and constructed a Structural Equation Model to verify the model. [Results/Conclusions] The study found that the risk perception, performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions had a significant impact on the elderly's behavioral intention of information technology for COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control , and technology anxiety, resistance to change had no significant impact on the behavioral intention. Finally, this paper puts forward countermeasures and suggestions based on the research findings.

[Purpose/Significance] At present, the construction of China's smart elderly care system is in the early stage of development. Understanding the cognition and needs of the elderly for smart elderly care services is conducive to the further development and service optimization of smart elderly services. [Methods/Process] The convenience sampling method was adapted to survey 161 elderly people in the N community in Guangzhou, and the statistical software SPSS 22.0 was used for data statistics, and the results were descriptive statistical analysis and cross-analysis. [Results/Conclusions]Respondents have low awareness of smart elderly care (16.2%), but the overall demand is high (67.7%), especially the demand for basic services is strong, but they are sensitive to service prices and the proportion of respondents who are willing to pay higher fees is low (21.1%); Gender, age, education level and other factors have significant differences in the demand for some smart elderly care services. It is recommended to increase the in-depth integration of information technologies and old-age assistance, cultivate new forms of smart old-age care, improve infrastructure construction, and build a demand-oriented smart old-age care service system that integrates medical care, health, and recreation.

Objectives: To determine the effect of implementing health information technology in an outpatient setting on reduction of duplicate prescriptions among patients with multiple chronic diseases. Methods: Adult patients with at least 2 refillable prescriptions for multiple chronic diseases at a medical center in southern Taiwan between 1 October 2012 and 30 June 2013 were enrolled in the current study. The key design principles in the ambulatory pharmaceutical care model included (1) using the SAS Enterprise Guide to systematically screen potential duplicate prescription orders using pre-specified criteria, (2) hospital pharmacists performed medication reviews and provided electronic alerts for duplicate medications to physicians, and (3) medical alerts and recommendations were integrated into the natural workflow of practice to correct duplicate medications. Patient characteristics and patterns of duplicate medications were assessed using descriptive statistical analyses. Results: Of 572 notifications (n=483), the most common duplicate prescriptions occurred in patients > 65 years of age, had > 3 outpatient specialist visits, and were treated with > 10 medications. The correction rate for duplicate prescriptions was high for cardiovascular diseases, endocrinopathies, and Parkinson disease. Among patients who had corrected duplicate medications (n=283), the average monthly medication cost decreased 47,325 TWD during the most recent 6 months when compared to the 6 months preceding the correction. Furthermore, the outpatient clinic, emergency room, and hospitalization person-visits decreased 5.8%, 18.3%, and 13.8%, respectively. Conclusions: Implementation of advancing health information technology in the outpatient setting for a group of patients with multiple chronic diseases revealed a high propensity to successfully reduce duplicate medications in a large population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]