Evaluation of digital therapy in Dementia and aging in China

Abstract

In China, dementia become more and more seriously with the rapid increasing aging population, which bring significant burdens on health care systems, society and family. There are many barriers and challenges in dementia prevention diagnose, and treatment. Digital therapy in Hainan funded by the local government has been used by the healthcare system to conduct cognitive screening for the elderly above 60 years. The program demonstrates efficiency of digital therapy, and has proved cost-effective. This paper suggests that the model of digital therapy motivated by local governments, not only can help promoting the health system on dementia, but also educating health care professionals, enhancing screening capabilities of dementia, building a referral system and so on, should be expanded in other developing regions.