With a shrinking care workforce and an aging housing stock, the region faces mounting pressure to help older adults live ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains on the UK care system ...

Yong Suk Lee, associate professor of technology, economy and global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Facing high employee turnover and an aging ...

Facing high employee turnover and an aging population, nursing homes have increasingly turned to robots to complete a variety of care tasks, but few researchers have explored how these technologies ...

The rapidly increasing aging population will lead to a shortage of care providers in the future. While robotic technologies are a potential alternative, their widespread use is limited by poor ...

Slowly but steadily an 83-year-old woman marched up and down the corridor with a device strapped around her waist and attached to each leg. Sensors in the exoskeleton detected the movement of her hip ...

New research suggests that using robots in nursing homes has a positive influence on employee retention, hiring rates and resident care. The study examined robotics implementation in a nursing home in ...

Are we ready to live with caregiving robots? With Japan facing a projected shortage of 570,000 care workers by 2040, ...

Advances in medicine have led to an increase in human longevity. Estimates suggest that by 2030, one in every six individuals globally will be aged over 60 years. This rapid increase in the aging ...

Visions of robots, enchanted forests, and, most importantly, love flowed freely at a lucky Blanchester, OH, nursing home recently. Residents at Continental Manor were able to let their imagination run ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nadine, a social robot powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) with human-like gestures and expressions, could have an important future role to play in tending to the sick and ...

Home-care robots hold significant potential in empowering older adults. Researchers from Chiba University, Japan, assess factors influencing the willingness to use home-care robots among caregivers ...