Solving the Problem of Aging in China, Application Research of Information Technology System and High
and New Technology
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In the 1990s, American media reports and government announcements led to this Digital Divide. Its concept is traditionally defined as the gap between technology access owners and technology access lack [6]. The theory of the Digital Divide states that there is a divide between those who have access to and use the internet among different groups in society, which leads to this inequality, which is divided into access ditch and use ditch according to different causes. The 1st digital divide, i.e. the condition gap between people who access the Internet at a level of substance, is called "access ditch" ]. In particular, inequality of material access based on economic and social development, which is mainly influenced by national economic strength, government decision making, network infrastructure construction and information technology standards and regulations, is reflected in the access gap. However, having the same hardware access conditions does not mean that people will use the Internet in the same way and degree.
[8 This structural difference in digital skills and use is the second digital divide the use ditch. The study on Internet use is primarily concerned with the gap in availability among various groups, the purpose of access to networks and the content of network web services [11:11.12]. Digital skills can be divided into tool skills, information skills, and strategy skills, depending on the level of digital skills. [13] In the entire social population, these three skills are unevenly distributed. Some scholars have pointed out that the digital divide between older people and young people is much broader than a simple issue of access. The elderly are lagging behind young people in the use of information technology, a common phenomenon around the world due to physical and cognitive limitations, low computer or IT literacy, problems with adoption and usage.. [14,15,16,17], In In 2019, Russia had 16.2% of the population over 65 years of age, 36% of the population over 65 years of age, South Korea had 14.9% of the population over 65 years of age, 38.9% of the population over 70 years of age, and 37.8% of the population used a mobile phone In 2020, 13.5% of China's population will be over 65 years old, says the National Bureau of Statistics. As of March 2020, China's elderly Internet users over 60 years old accounted for 6.7% of the total number of Internet users, and the penetration rate of elderly Internet users was 23.7%, less than 1/3 of the young Internet users (73.0%) (estimated according to the total population and composition of China at the end of 2019).. On the user side, a significant proportion of elderly people in search engines, APP installations and WeChat use was significantly lower than for young Chinese users due to their lack of digital skills. [20]. Although the aging level of China is relatively low, due to a large base and a large elderly population, the digital divide of the elderly is prominent. So measures taken by other countries and regions to deal with the digital divide of the elderly have certain reference value and significance for China. To sum up, this paper defines the digital divide of the elderly as the gap between the elderly group and the middle-aged and young group in using and obtaining information due to their disadvantages in equipment acquisition, the level of media use, and basic user skills. The existing literiture on the digital divide of the elderly is primarily qualitative and lacks quantitative analysis. As a first innovation, this paper attempts to construct the elderly digital divide quantitatively from the gap of digital ability between the elderly and young people. In addition, previous literiture thinks whether to use the Internet is an important indicator reflecting the digital divide [21,22]. Furthermore, in relevant research, scholars mostly used the difference in Internet use to reflect the digital divide. As for measuring the digital divide among the elderly, the index of whether to use the Internet was mostly used in the literature [23,24]. Some scholars measured the Internet use of the elderly from three dimensions: whether to use the Internet, the amount of online content, and frequency of use [5], but it is still tricky to reflect the digital technology use of the elderly comprehensively. This paper attempts to construct a comprehensive index of the digital divide, thereby comprehensively analyzing the impact of the digital divide on active aging. Most of the existing literature only examines the impact of Internet use of the elderly on their physical and mental health and social participation. In terms of physical and mental health, Among them, the proportion of the elderly using search engines was 4.4%, less than 1/6 of the non-elderly Internet users (27.4%). The number of mobile APPs per capita for the elderly was 37, which was only 44.0% of the number of young Internet users aged 20–29 (84 per capita); The proportion of the elderly using WeChat was 26.2%, less than 1/3 of the non-elderly users (88.9%). Some scholars think that the elderly are able to learn more about their health from the Internet, and then get a better grip on how they feel physically. The loneliness of the elderly can also be reduced by the use of the Internet, thereby improving their mental health, 27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34. In addition, some studies
have shown that, by increasing the frequency of learning, the use of the Internet can also promote the development of mental health in the elderly.[35]. On the other hand, some scholars have shown that Internet use can increase elderly people's overall Social Participation and improve their quality of life as a result of this activity. Most of the previous literature studied from a single aspect of active aging, but active aging includes physical and mental health, social participation, and security. Therefore, there is a lack of comprehensive research on the effects of active ageing.
In order to examine the overall impact of the digital divide on active ageing, this paper seeks to create a comprehensive index for active ageing from three dimensions of physical and mental health, social participation and security To sum up, this paper first constructs the comprehensive indicators of the digital divide and active aging and then quantitatively analyzes the impact of the elderly digital divide on active aging. Moreover, the three secondary indicators of essential equipment shall be used as a starting point Internet utilization degree, and basic Internet use skills, and from the perspective of more specific tertiary indicators, such as the number of Internet devices, Internet frequency, online reading time, whether they can make electronic payments, open web pages and search for information., In this paper, the role of different types of activities and the intensity of the digital divide is better investigated, with a view to providing important policy information on the basis of empirical results.