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.

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Health care science
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2026-09-11
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hcs2.70097
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Technology Use by Older Adults
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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.

Health care science
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)
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