The National Health and Family Planning Commission released The Division of Tasks of the 13th Five-Year Plan for Healthy Aging on its website on November 2^nd. This is China’s first division of key tasks based on the national top strategy of healthy aging.

• Enhancing healthy education for the aged. Educational activities concerning fitness, disease prevention and recovery for the aged, science and art, mental health, professional skills, family finances, etc. should be organized.

• Making efforts on disease prevention for the aged. Efforts should be made in managing and providing service to the aged in terms of their health, which is one of our national basic public health programs. At the same time, we should properly adjust physical examination items and contents.

• Promoting the service of mental health and caring for the aged. Launch prevention and intervention plans for elderly mental health, and provide daily caring and mental support to poor, empty nest, disabled, dementia, family-planning special families and elders who live alone.

• Pushing forward the service combining medical care and pension schemes. Establish and improve the cooperation mechanism for medical organizations and pension agencies, encourage various kinds of contracted services and cooperation.

• Enhancing academic research about elderly health. Conduct large scale cohort studies, including the index, standard, and method of judging and predicting elderly health, and wearable technology and equipment for supporting elderly health. Explore the progress and law of Geriatric Syndromes, and the technology, guide and standard of its preventions, and construct a network for elderly health management.