Abstract:  Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, China’s elderly care services have made all-round progress. However, the “digital divide” between the ever-changing technological innovation and the continuous growth of the aging population is widening. In view of this, we focus on the “digital divide” by taking the Implementation Plan for Practically Solving the Difficulties of the Elderly in Using Intelligent Technology as the sample for analysis, adopting the content analysis method and setting policy tools and the varying needs of the elderly as the analysis dimensions. The results show quantitative differences in the distribution of policy tools, differentiation in specific combinations and matching and imbalanced proportion of meeting the needs of the elderly, which deviates from meeting the lower levels of needs from higher levels. Therefore, future policies should adjust the structure of policy tools and optimize their detailed distribution so as to meet the elderly needs of different levels.

Key words:  , smart elderly care, policy tools, content analysis, institutional advantage