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Dec 18, 2018
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How technology can help look after an ageing population. Ed Butler visits a care home in Japan where robots are used to help dementia patients, and hears from Adam Gazzaley, a California-based professor of neurology and psychiatry who has developed a video game aimed at keeping older people alert. Computer science academic Alessandro di Nuevo gives an overview of how technology is increasingly employed in elderly care.
(Photo: 'Paro', the therapeutic seal robot with an elderly woman in Japan, Credit: BBC)
(Photo: 'Paro', the therapeutic seal robot with an elderly woman in Japan, Credit: BBC)
Released:
Dec 18, 2018
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Podcast episode
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