Research on the Digital Divide and Countermeasures of Online Health Services for the Elderly in the Digital Medical Era
This paper discusses the digital divide of online health services for the elderly in China in the digital medi-cal era,and expounds the concept and influencing factors of the digital divide,including equipment access gap,use gap and digital health literacy gap.At the same time,it analyzes the difficulties faced by the elderly in using online health ser-vices,such as the inequality of digital foundation,the lack of aging degree of digital equipment and online health service platform products,and the inequality of health knowledge empowerment.This paper puts forward the key strategies to solve the digital divide of online health services for the elderly,so as to promote the elderly to better integrate into the field of online health services and alleviate the problems caused by the digital divide.
elderlydigital divideonline health servicesdigital health literacy