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This study contributes to the adoption of smart elderly care was selected as the decision attribute. The remaining attributes are used as conditional attributes and the multi-level symmetric attribute set for assessing acceptance of smart elderly care. Prior studies are not included smart elderly care adoption attributes in multi-levels; hence, this problem needs to be addressed. The results of this study indicate that the condition attribute of gender has the greatest influence on the decision attribute. The condition attribute of living expenses for smart elderly care has the second largest impact on decision attribute. Children\u2019s support for the elderly decency of the novel elderly care system and the acceptance of non-traditional elderly care methods belong to the primary condition attribute of traditional concept. The result indicates traditional concepts have a certain impact on the adoption of smart elderly care and a condition attribute of residence also has a slight influence on the symmetric decision attribute. The sensitivity analysis shows the insights for uncertainties and provides as a basis for the analysis of the attributes in the smart elderly care service adoption.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/sym12020297","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,26]],"date-time":"2020-02-26T04:18:29Z","timestamp":1582690709000},"page":"297","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Using Neighborhood Rough Set Theory to Address the Smart Elderly Care in Multi-Level Attributes"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8180-4059","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jining","family":"Zhou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China"},{"name":"School of Chinese and Broadcasting, Hengshui University, Hengshui 053000, China"},{"name":"National Engineering Research Center for Technological Innovation Method and Tool, Tianjin 300401, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Engineering Research Center for Technological Innovation Method and Tool, Tianjin 300401, China"},{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Runhua","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Engineering Research Center for Technological Innovation Method and Tool, Tianjin 300401, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2702-3590","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ming-Lang","family":"Tseng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovation and Circular Economy, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan"},{"name":"Department of Medical Research, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan"},{"name":"Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bandar Baru Bangi 43600, Malaysia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0918-4961","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Remen Chun-Wei","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Innovation and Circular Economy, Asia University, Taichung 41354, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ming K.","family":"Lim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty Research Centre for Business in Society, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1958","DOI":"10.1109\/TFUZZ.2014.2387877","article-title":"A Decision-Theoretic Rough Set Approach for Dynamic Data Mining","volume":"23","author":"Chen","year":"2015","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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