Robots Aren’t the Solution to Elder Care w/ James Wright
Tech Won't Save Us
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What's It Like to Work in a Care Home?
I want to shift to looking at what actually happens in the care homes and how these robots are actually implemented. And so I think before we talk about the robots, maybe you can give us an idea of what it's actually like to work in one of these care homes or what these care homes are actually like in Japan. So typically it's mainly female residents, because for a number of reasons, women tend to live longer in Japan. The average age was around 88 in this care home in Sakura. You know, there were more male care workers, quite often who'd been laid off from manufacturing jobs.
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