Current Situation Trends and Illumination of WOS Based Research on Aging Health Policy
Objective:To learn about thehotspots,current status and trends in health policy on population aging.Methods:A total of 4,066 articles were obtainedafter searching for the articles of aging health policy from the build of WOS to December 2023.The arti-cles were visualized and analyzed byusing CiteSpace,and themaps of clustering analysis,timeline as well as emergence on keywords are then to be drawn.Results:There is an overall upward trend in the number of publications in this area.Among the countries,the United States(1,606 articles)ranked first,followed by China(549 articles).the University of California System ranked first in terms of the number of articles published.Muhammad,T.had the highest number of articles published by authors.Most of the hotspots in this field focus on mental health,long-term care,aging in place,and quality of life.Conclusions:In order to positively respond to popula-tion aging,policies in various countries have continued to improve the health service system for the elderly in terms of social environ-ment,model of old-age care,medical care,health insurance,technological innovation and so on.There is still room for development in China in terms of senior citizens'mental healthcare,long-term care,community care,digitalized elderly care,prevention and treat-ment of chronic diseases,and the training of geriatrics personnel.