Abstract: The “information gap” faced by the aged in the digital era has become particularly prominent during the epidemic in 2020, and even affected the normal life of the aged, especially the aged in rural areas How to deal with the digital dilemma of the aged in the post-epidemic era and improve their digital life has become an important social issue that the Chinese government and all circles must pay attention to Under this special background and based on the analysis of the current situation of the digital survival of the aged in China, this paper focuses on the main measures to deal with this problem from the fields of government, enterprises, families and society, as well as the possible ways to improve in order to provide useful enlightenment for the practice of coping with the digital dilemma of the aged in China

Key words:  knowledge gap theory, the aged, digital dilemma, countermeasure