ABSTRACT
Covid-19 pandemic limit human mobility and interaction among others. This limitation includes attending a health center to do health checking. The Indonesian government urges citizens to check their health through electronic health, also known as e-Health. The use of e-Health is to give basic information about general health and simple checking on Covid-19 symptoms. The elderly is those who are vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and accessing e-Health would be an answer for the elderly to access basic health facilities and information during the pandemic. Additionally, the emergence of the metaverse raises the possibility to integrate the application of the e-Health system into it, to simplify and integrate the data of users who have e-Health accounts. Unfortunately, the ability of the elderly to access information technology is still questioned. This research tries to capture the perception and the acceptance of elderly people in accessing e-Health and using metaverse in Indonesia. The study will be conducted using a quasi-experimental method in the City of Surakarta. Respondents will be asked to fill out questionnaires about their understanding of e-Health and metaverse before and after treatment conducted by researchers. The anticipated result indicated that the elderly in Surakarta finds difficulties in accessing e-Health and metaverse due to a lack of information on how to use it. This finding indicates that government policy on e-Health system use is not accompanied by acceptance strategies for the elderly, as a vulnerable group to Covid-19 infection. Moreover, when the e-Health system is combined with the utilization of metaverse. © 2022 IEEE.