Title: Preliminary Study on the Implementation of Spiritual Needs Accommodation in Retirement Community Landscape in the Context of Smart Pension
Abstract: Smart Pension aims to cope with severe problems caused by population aging with the help of information technology, which helps the elderly improve their quality of life and demonstrate their value and dignity.Technology and needs accommodation are the cores of Smart Pension, in which the supply of spiritual demand is of great significance to the seniors.This paper focuses on the implementation of spiritual needs accommodation in retirement community landscape in the context of Smart Pension in China.Based on Customer Experience Theory, semi-open interviews was conducted involving two topics of "scenery" and "facilities" from cognition, emotion and behavior, after analyzing, the spiritual needs of elderly Chinese for landscape mainly includes "emotional care" and "cultural care," which are best carried by "intelligent facilities and landscape" and "festivals and cultural landscape," respectively.Based on the founding and the principles of landscape design, we propose several approaches of landscaping for the accommodation of spiritual needs in retirement community with the aid of information technology, which may provide ideas for the construction of comprehensive cares for the elderly.