Desperate for workers, aging Japan turns to robots for healthcare

[Zorro]

In America and other aging societies around the world, it has become common for the elderly to be cared for by their graying children or older workers. That’s largely because the younger labor force is shrinking, and few want to do such low-paying, back-aching work.

Japan sees an answer in robots.

At Minami Tsukuba nursing home near Tokyo, caregiver Asami Konishi wears a robotic device on her hips that cuts the stress on her back when she bends and lifts someone.

“It really helps when I have to pick up a heavier male patient,” said the 34-year-old.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-07-25/desperate-for-workers-aging-japan-turns-to-robots-for-healthcare

[FiveGoodMen]

1. And once robots can do everything (pretty soon, really) who still gets to eat?

[appalachiablue]

2. With no shortage of human laborers in Asia the use of robotics

is curious. But the attractions are clear-- novelty, ease and $$.

[keithbvadu2]

3. "With no shortage of human laborers in Asia"

"With no shortage of human laborers in Asia"

But Japan does not like outsiders.

They are aging out.

[appalachiablue]

4. Machines over 'foreigners' it is then.