Introduction

SSIDC Senior ServiceInformatics Research Center (hereafter referred as SSIDC)is a professional scientific research institution registered under BeijingCivil Affairs Bureau. Rooted in IT-based senior service, SSIDC integrates andutilizes all forces to participate in the informatics development of seniorservice, so as to promote the integration of production, study and research inthe application of information technology in senior service. SSIDC focuses onfuture senior innovative products and services and plays a professional andtechnical-supported role in the process of the development of social seniorservice system, creating and maintaining an efficient and low-cost environmentto make innovation and start business by applying IT in senior serviceindustry, and promote the transformation and industrialization of scientificand technological achievements.

Dr. Lanning Tian has a Ph.D. in Health and Welfare Management, International University of Health and Welfare (IUHW). And she graduated with Master’s Degree from Depaul University in the United State, majoring in Information System Management. She is fluent in English, Chinese and Japanese. She was once the Director of IT Department in Social Welfare Centre and led the National Information System for Aged Services funded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

In 2014, she founded SSIDC Senior Services Informatics Innovation Research Center and the Zhongguancun SSIDC Smart Health and Senior Care Industrial Alliance. She is also the editor-in-chief of the “Empower the Next Stage of Life” book series.

Now Dr. Lanning Tian is also the Vice President of China Association of Social Welfare and Senior Service, and a Research Fellow at the Center of Gerontology, Tsinghua University. Before she came back China in 2010 she worked at both Welgreens compnay and Accenture company.