The Aged Society in the Digital Age:Features,Opportunities,and Challenges
Understanding the aging society in the digital era is a common requirement to promote the construction of digital China and implement the national strategy to actively respond to the aging pop-ulation under the background of the overlapping of digitization and population aging.The immediacy of media,the breadth of information,the interactivity of process,the convenience of participation and the digitization of behavior are the important characteristics.This brings new opportunities such as digital technology providing scientific and technological support,more convenient and diversified so-cial participation,etc.,and new challenges such as complex and diversified governance objects,ab-sence of data collaboration mechanisms,etc.Accordingly,we should adhere to the governance con-cept of"people-oriented,technology for the good",enhance the government's digital governance ca-pacity,embed digital technology in the whole process of public services,promote the integrated de-velopment of digital economy and silver economy,build a smart,intensive and collaborative elderly care service platform,promote active aging with digital technology,and integrate and open the devel-opment of aging data resources.
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