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1st Edition

Digital Transformation and Well-Aging Strategies in East Asia Embracing Innovation

Edited By Taeil Kim, Yifan Yang, Naoko Iwasaki, Fangrong He Copyright 2027

274 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

Kim, Yang, Iwasaki, and He, along with their contributors, examine how China, Korea, and Japan are leveraging digital technologies to address unprecedented demographic shifts in their aging populations. This book offers a comparative and policy-oriented examination of how digital technologies and artificial intelligence are transforming aging societies in East Asia. Focusing on China, South... Read more

Table of Contents

Part 1: Rethinking Aging in the Digital Era: East Asian Perspectives

1. Embracing Innovation: Exploring Digital Solutions for Aging Societies in Three East Asian countries.

Taeil Kim

2. Technological progress in aging society in China, Japan, and South Korea

Yang Yifan and Yu Shuang

3. The Integration between the Digital and Ageing Society

Naoko Iwasaki

Part 2: Digital Transformation of Healthcare and Long-Term Care in East Asia

4. Digital Care Policies for Aging in China: Features, Innovation, Implementation, and Market Realities

Shuangshuang Wang, Xiaofan Wei, and Xiaofeng Xu

5. Digital Health Policy for Well-Aging in Korea

Taek Sik Kim

6. Elderly policy (medical care, long-term care, health) in Japan

Yamada Eiji

Part 3. Digital Practices of Aging in East Asia

7. Government-Enterprise-Society Collaboration: The Practice of Digital Technology Solving the Aging Dilemma in China

Yu Song and Xinying He

8. Digital Transformation of Social Services for Older People in Korea: Policy Evolution, Field Applications, and Future Challenges

Yeong-ran Park

9. DigiTech Innovations and Their Applications in Addressing Japan's Aging Society

Toshio Obi

Part 4: Bridging the Digital Divide in Aging Societies

10. Policy and Practice Exploration of Digital Literacy Education for Chinese Older Adults

Yaping Hu and Shuang Yu

11. Policies and Current Status of Digital Inclusion Among Older Adults in Korea

Fangrong He and Taeil Kim

12. Super-Aged Society and the Digital Divide in Japan

Naoko Iwasaki

Part 5: Local Governance and Regional Inequality in Digital Aging

13. China's Rural Digital Elderly Care Policy: Local Implementations and Structural Innovations

Xiao Zhu and Hongping Lin

14. The role of local governments in digital integration in an aging society

WooJoung Shim

15. Local digitalization projects addressing the needs of aging communities in rural Japan: enabling mechanism of national policy support.

Diana Ishmatova

Part 6: Conclusion: Comparative Insights and Future Directions for Digital Aging in East Asia

Conclusion: Implications and Future Tasks of the Three-Country Case Study

Yifan Yang, Taeil Kim amd Naoko Iwasaki

Editor(s)

Biography

Taeil Kim is a Professor at the Department of Public Administration, Korea University and a former Director of the Institute on Aging, Korea University, South Korea.

Yifan Yang is a Professor of Southwest Jiaotong University, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice Dean of National Interdisciplanry Institute on Ageing, Member of Expert Committee of National Working Committee of Ageing, China.

Naoko Iwasaki is a Professor at the Institute of Digital Government, Waseda University, Japan and is a President of the International Academy of CIO, Japan.

Fangrong He is a Research Professor at the Institute on Aging, Korea University, South Korea.

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