Elderly Health Download

For the "Healthy China" client of the official platform of the National Health Commission, the "Elderly Health Service Information Platform" under the National Office on Aging, the resource areas of the public accounts of local health commissions, and the remaining third-party applications and resources, it is recommended to first check the application whitelist of the "National Anti-Fraud Center APP" before downloading, and do not click on the download link in the pop-up window on the webpage.

Don’t believe it, last week I accompanied Uncle Zhang who lives downstairs to clean up the garbage on his mobile phone, and I uninstalled 7 useless “senior health” apps alone. He said that when he was browsing a website, a pop-up window called "Download the full version of the Health Guide for Middle-aged and Elderly People" popped up. When he clicked on it, the software was automatically installed. As soon as he opened it, he was asked to fill in his mobile phone number and home address. After that, he promoted magnetic therapy insoles for 998 yuan and health tea that "guarantees three highs" for 1,288 yuan every day, and he couldn't stop him. Those pop-up links are actually like the salesmen at the gate of the community who ask you to attend "free health lectures". They seem to be giving you benefits, but in fact they are holding back your wallet.

But having said that, not all unofficial health resources are off limits. My mother complained to me before, saying that the content on the official platform was too "correct". It was thick manuals and long paragraphs of text, which were hard on the eyes and not as interesting as the sugar control tips taught by retired nurses and cervical spine exercises taught by old Chinese medicine practitioners on the short video platform. This view actually makes sense - after all, health content must first make the elderly willing to watch and understand it before it can be valuable. When I help my mother find this kind of content, I first check whether the posting account has real-name certified medical qualifications. If I want to download the relevant APP, I search it from the app store that comes with the phone. I take a look at the user reviews in advance. Those who search will find a lot of bad reviews for "inducing consumption" and "false propaganda", so just pass it.

In the past two years, I have helped three elderly people in my family organize health resources and gained some experience. For example, if you want to download manuals on chronic disease care, go directly to the senior health section of the "Healthy China" client. The daily care guides for hypertension, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease are free downloadable PDFs, and the font size can be adjusted. They are much more reliable than those health care pamphlets posted on the roadside with advertisements for health products. They are compiled by a team of top domestic experts, and there is no pseudoscience at all about "eating mung beans to cure all diseases." If you are looking for daily monitoring tools, such as small software for recording blood pressure and blood sugar, you should first choose the health APP that comes with your mobile phone, or the one that has been downloaded over a million times in the app store and is developed by a regular medical technology company. The kind that requires you to authorize your address book and location information as soon as you open it can be simply uninstalled. In all likelihood, it is for the purpose of reselling personal information. By the way, don’t touch those who say, “Downloading will give you free physical examination and free eggs.” If you covet their little benefits, they can target tens of thousands of dollars in your pension money.

A while ago, I helped my grandma download an official dietary guide for the elderly and saved it in her mobile phone album. Every time before she went to buy groceries, she would take it out and look at it twice to know what to eat more and what to touch less. Her blood pressure has stabilized a lot in the past two months. In fact, when we look for content related to the health of the elderly, we don’t need to save a lot of it that takes up memory. Finding one or two that are reliable and can be used is much more useful than saving hundreds of gigabytes of health videos. If you are really not sure whether it is reliable or not, it is always a good idea to ask a young person at home to help you check.