Goal: meaningful connections, sharing caregiving responsibilities, and developing community-based solutions.
Fast Company interviewed older adults aged 70+ about their thoughts on possible robots in their homes.
Lifelong partners grapple with how and whether to stay together when one can’t care for the other.
An improvement over more mechanical sounding voice responses.
Viewing digital literacy and learning not as an unnecessary use of time but as an investment in independence and quality of life.
The answer, says Joseph Coughlin of MIT AgeLab, is both.
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