China is currently the only country in the world with an elderly population of over 200 million. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that by the end of 2022, China's population aged 60 and over will reach 280 million, accounting for 19.8 per cent of the country's total population, and it is expected that China's elderly population will peak at 470-480 million in 2050, and that the global elderly population will reach about 2 billion.
With the increasing demand for old age, as well as the new technological revolution and new industrial changes to speed up the advancement of the "Internet + old age", that is, the wisdom of old age is gradually gaining momentum, into the people's field of vision, by more families, more elderly people, wisdom of old age will become the development of the old age industry will be a new trend for the "old age" has brought more without as far as possible.
Now more common elderly bracelets, chatting robots, etc., are to improve the health and quality of life of the elderly, but for the disabled, incontinence of the elderly, they need to be able to use the "smart" to enable them to live a normal life.
Take an example of an incontinent elderly, living in a nursing institution + usual care products for a year is about 36,000-60,000 yuan / year; nurse care is about 60,000-120,000 yuan / year; if you use urinary and fecal intelligent care robots, although a one-time cost of equipment is not low, but can be a long time, the cycle of the use of the long term seems to be, "intelligent care The cost of "intelligent care" is the lowest.
So can robots replace caregivers?
People are herd animals with social attributes. Only in a crowd can people feel the sense of need and being needed, the sense of security, the sense of being respected and cared for, and the sense of psychological comfort.
As many elders grow old, they gradually become more vulnerable and lonely, and become more dependent on people who are close to them, which may be relatives or caregivers they spend time with day and night.
Elderly deeper needs of the elderly, not only life care, but also psychological and spiritual needs and humanized services to give elders genuine respect, attention.
Therefore, the elderly robot can assist the caregiver to take better care of the elderly, but can not replace the caregiver.
The future of senior care will be more permanent with a combination of both.
Post time: Oct-19-2023
