Digital Healthy Aging in China: Current Landscape and the Way Forward
ABSTRACT China is experiencing rapid population aging, which poses increasing challenges for healthcare and social support systems. Digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, and telemedicine, offer innovative solutions to support healthy aging and integrated care. This paper reviews China's national strategies, digital innovations, and service models, with a focus on applications across different functional stages of older adults' daily living. Ethical considerations, policy challenges, and practical case studies are also discussed, providing insights for building inclusive, technology‐enabled health systems in aging societies.
Authors
- Xueqing Tian
- Xuefei Gu
- Han Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7240-0917)
- Ping Ren
- Yingpeng Qiu
Institutions
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- Digital China Health (China) (CN)
- China National Health Development Research Center (CN)
- National Institute of Mental Health (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Health care science
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hcs2.70097
- Primary Topic
- Technology Use by Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00