When the carer has dementia too: Japan turns to physical AI to rescue eldercare

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by SEA: e27 / Vulcan Post at 07 Oct, 05:30 UTC

Some Japanese words resist translation. Take rōrō kaigo (老老介護). The character rō means “elderly”, and repeating it describes an elderly person caring for another elderly person, such as an 80-year-old husband looking after his equally frail wife on his own. That is the reality the word captures…

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