Despite innovations that make it easier for seniors to keep living on their own rather than moving into special facilities, most elderly people eventually need a hand with chores and other everyday activities.
Friends and relatives often can't do all the work. Growing evidence indicates it's neither sustainable nor healthy for seniors or their loved ones. Yet demand for professional caregivers already far outstrips supply, and experts say this workforce shortage will only get worse.
So how will our society bridge this elder-care gap? In a word, robots.
Just as automation has begun to do jobs previously seen as uniquely suited for humans, like retrieving goods from warehouses, robots will assist your elderly relatives.
Would you entrust grandma to Johnny 5?
(Score: 2) by leftover on Tuesday August 29 2017, @04:05PM
This, exactly! It is "radical" in the sense of being simple, correct, and never to be heard in B-schools or boardrooms. There is really not a shortage of kind and trustworthy people who would do this job if they could make even a modest living at it.
Bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated.