Elderly Health News Electronic Edition

For elderly friends who need to obtain daily health knowledge, are afraid of trouble, and have poor eyesight, as well as children who need to screen reliable health information for the elderly at home, the formal and official electronic version of the elderly health newspaper is one of the most cost-effective and credible channels for obtaining health information. It is more than 10 times more reliable than the miscellaneous folk remedies obtained through short videos.

Uncle Zhang just caused a minor incident downstairs a while ago. He was browsing a short video and came across a claim that "fasting with celery juice for 7 days can cure high blood pressure." He secretly stopped the antihypertensive medicine he had been taking for five or six years. As a result, he became dizzy on the third day and couldn't stand. His wife helped him to the community hospital. After he was discharged from the hospital, his daughter was afraid that he would believe in random prescriptions again, so she ordered him the electronic version of the official Senior Health Newspaper, and specially set a desktop shortcut key for him to enter with one click.

Don’t tell me, the current official electronic version is really designed to understand the elderly. The font can be enlarged to the oldest level, and it even has a voice reading function with a dialect accent. Uncle Zhang’s 300-degree presbyopia can see clearly without wearing reading glasses. When cooking, you can put it aside to listen to health science. It has only been two months, and now he is going downstairs to chat with his old friend. He dares to pat his chest and say, "Don't believe the claim that eating raw eggplant drains oil. Experts from the Xiehe Nutrition Department invited by People's Daily have come out to refute the rumor. Raw eggplant is cold in nature. Eating too much will easily cause stomach upset and damage the spleen and stomach."

Of course not everyone agrees with this. I was chatting with Lao Zhou in the community last week, and he just waved his hand and said that the electronic version was empty in his hand. It was better to make a cup of jasmine tea every morning, spread out the paper version of the newspaper and read it for comfort. If you saw something useful, you could fold a corner, or cut it out and stick it on the refrigerator door. When cooking, you would just glance at it and remember it. Scratching the electronic version back and forth, I always felt that the content I read did not leave any impression. Many old friends echoed his words, saying that reading newspapers is a lifelong habit that cannot be changed.

There are also many elderly people who have truly tasted the benefits. Aunt Wang from the community couldn't even scan the health code before. She participated in the community's smart device training last year and learned how to use the electronic version with a social worker for half an hour. Now she not only searches for health recipes from previous years, but also forwards dietary guidelines suitable for diabetics to her older sister who has settled out of town. She always said that she had subscribed to the paper version for ten years and saved half a cabinet of old newspapers. It would take half an hour to find a calcium supplement recipe for middle-aged and elderly people that was published in 2021. Now, if she searches for the word "calcium supplement" in the electronic version, all the relevant content will come up in a second, which is really incomparable to the paper version.

When I helped popularize smart tools for the elderly in the community, I also helped many elderly people debug the electronic version. To be honest, the current official version basically has no complicated operations. The homepage is the content of the day's newspaper, which is completely synchronized with the paper version. It is updated on time at 8 o'clock every morning. It is not much different from the time when newspaper delivery workers came to their homes in the past. It will not disrupt the elderly's work and rest habits for many years. If your children are not around, you can ask the social worker in the community to help you adjust the shortcut, and you don’t have to worry about it.

Of course there is no need to brag about how perfect it is. If an elderly person does not know how to use a smartphone and has no one around to teach him, or if his eyes become dry and painful after looking at an electronic screen for more than ten minutes, then the paper version is definitely more suitable. I also have to remind you, don’t click on third-party advertisements that pop up randomly when using them, especially the ones marked with “free health care products” and “exclusive secret recipe for lowering blood pressure.” These are definitely not included in the official content. They are all pop-ups from third parties. If you are not sure, ask your children at home, don’t be fooled.

In fact, to put it bluntly, whether it is a paper version or an electronic version, the core is to find a reliable source of health information. Nowadays, there is a mixed bag of information on the Internet, and it is easy for the elderly to believe in those over-the-top folk remedies. Instead of trying to prevent them from using their mobile phones, it is better to find a reliable channel. After all, what we elderly want is to have a strong body and live a stable life.