With the aging of the population in our country, healthy aging becomes an important strategic objective to improve the quality of life. Digital health services, as an emerging model, use the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and other technical means to provide innovative solutions for the health management of the elderly. However, older people have special characteristics in terms of digital skills and health service needs, which lead to many challenges for digital health services in promoting healthy aging. In recent years, the state has issued a series of policies to promote the development of healthy aging, such as the "14th Five-Year Plan for Healthy Aging" and "Opinions on Promoting the construction of Basic Elderly Care Service System", which have provided policy support for the development of digital health servicesexposed problems such as weak infrastructure, supply-demand imbalance, and digital divide. This study adopts literature, logical analysis, expert interviews, and other research methods to the logical path of digital health services to promote healthy aging, analyze the barriers it faces, and propose a corresponding breakthrough path. The study found that the logical path of digital health services to promote healthy aging includes implementing policy requirements, meeting the increasing demand for elderly health services, empowering the elderly health service system, and innovating management models. However, its development faces challenges such as weak infrastructure, insufficient matching of supply and demand, deepening digital divide, coordination of multiple entities, and lack of institutional norms. Digital health services have great potential to promote healthy aging, but they also face many challenges. Measures such as strengthening infrastructure construction, optimizing supply and demand matching, narrowing the digital divide, establishing collaborative mechanisms, and improving institutional norms can effectively improve the quality and accessibility of digital health services for the elderly and promote the development of healthy aging. From the perspective of theory and practice innovation, this study provides theoretical reference and practical reference for China's digital health services to promote healthy aging.
Chen et al. (Thu,) studied this question.