Exploring Industry-Education Integration in Health and Senior Care in the Era of Technological Disruption: Opportunities, Challenges, and Pathways

Abstract

With the rapid development of new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things, the health and elderly care service sector is undergoing a profound digital and intelligent transformation. While this technological wave injects new impetus into industrial upgrading, it also reveals a significant gap between traditional talent cultivation models and the demands of emerging industries. This article, from the perspective of industry-education integration, deeply analyzes the new opportunities and challenges brought about by technological development to the health and elderly care service sector. The core of the article lies in exploring effective paths to address these challenges through deep industry-education integration, and proposes specific strategies such as building a “government-industry-enterprise-school” collaborative talent cultivation community, a co-construction and sharing type of practical training base, and an innovative project-based teaching model, with the aim of providing theoretical references and practical guidance for cultivating high-quality, compound talents that meet the future demands of the health and elderly care service sector.