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As a result, restrictive measures introduced under the banner of risk prevention are readily treated as \u201creasonable protection,\u201d while, under the guise of care, they can encroach on older persons\u2019 freedom, privacy, and dignity. The expansion of digital care technologies reinforces logics of continuous monitoring and alerting, thereby intensifying this tension. Existing debates often remain confined to an \u201cautonomy versus beneficence\u201d framing or to compliance-oriented privacy governance, and thus struggle to specify clear boundary conditions. Grounded in care ethics and relational autonomy, this article conceptualizes such practices as \u201cbenevolent coercion\u201d and develops a Relational Legitimacy Framework (RLF). 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