The Nursing Services to the Autistic People: Business Model for Social Entrepreneurship

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201214.482How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Autism, Nursing service, Social Entrepreneurship, Business Model

Abstract

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects people’s behavior and communication. Autistic people are suffering serious symptoms that hurt their ability to support their lives independently, which indicates the necessity of extra care even when they have reached adults. Based on the qualitative interview with parents of autistic people, the theory social entrepreneurship models, and the investigation of current market, this paper constructed a business model of nursing service center for autistic people, presented its target customers, operation cost, and revenue flow, and demonstrated its desirability, feasibility, and viability. The business model was successfully constructed and provided for local governments which aim to improve the living standard of autistic people, existed autistic institutions which are willing to expand the content of their business, and social entrepreneur who are willing to invest in relative area.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shanxun Hu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/16
TI  - The Nursing Services to the Autistic People: Business Model for Social Entrepreneurship
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 3rd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 136
EP  - 140
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201214.482
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201214.482
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