Navigating Aging with Technology: A Scoping Review of Digital Interventions Addressing Intrinsic Capacity Decline in Older Adults
Ping Lu, Chengji Yu, Dayu Tang, Xiaodie Yang, Ying Zhou, Juan Zhao, Liying Ying

TL;DR
This review explores digital health interventions for maintaining older adults' intrinsic capacity, finding promising but varied results across different domains.
Contribution
The study maps and evaluates digital interventions targeting intrinsic capacity decline in older adults, highlighting gaps in comprehensive domain coverage.
Findings
Most digital interventions focused on single domains, with cognition being the most targeted.
Few studies addressed sensory or vitality domains, and no intervention covered all five IC domains.
Effectiveness varied, with many showing significant improvements but limited by small study sizes.
Abstract
Background: Intrinsic capacity (IC) is key to promoting healthy aging, and managing declines in IC is crucial for delaying functional deterioration in older adults. Digital health interventions (DHIs) hold promising potential for addressing IC decline. This scoping review aims to synthesize existing evidence by mapping the types of DHIs employed and examining their effects across the five domains of IC in older adults. Methods: The review was conducted following the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley and the PRISMA-ScR guideline. The search was performed across PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, PsycINFO, SinoMed, and CNKI databases for studies published between 1 January 2015 and 31 July 2025. Relevant studies were identified using MeSH terms and free-text terms related to “older adults”, “digital health”, and “intrinsic capacity”. Results: Based on the eligibility…
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Taxonomy
TopicsTechnology Use by Older Adults · Frailty in Older Adults · Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
