Japanese inventors are in a race against the clock to find ways to provide less and less work for the growing number of sick elderly.
“Time is running out,” says Saori Haga, director of research and development at the Future Care Lab in Tokyo. A laboratory dedicated to innovation and the creation of new technologies in elderly care. It was founded by the Sompo company, an insurance giant but also owner of the Japanese equivalent of CHSLDs.
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But there are no flashy robots circling or blinking here, promising to replace nurses or orderlies in the near future. According to Ms. Haga, the aim is above all to simplify the work of the employees at the bedside … and to remedy the shortage of workers.
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