According to statistics from the National Health and Medical Commission, there are more than 44 million disabled and semi-disabled elderly people in China. At the same time, relevant survey reports show that 7% of families across the country have elderly people who need long-term care. At present, most of the care is provided by spouses, children or relatives, and the care services provided by third-party agencies is extremely low.
The deputy director of the National Working Committee on Aging, Zhu Yaoyin says: the problem of talents is an important bottleneck restricting the elderly care development of our country. It is common that the caregiver is old, less educated and unprofessional.
From 2015 to 2060, the population of people over the age of 80 in China will increase from 1.5% to 10% of the total population. At the same time, China's labor force is also declining, which will lead to a shortage of nursing staff for the elderly. It is estimated that by 2060, there will be only 1 million elderly care workers in China, accounting for only 0.13% of the labor force. This means that the ratio of the elderly people number over 80 years old to the caregiver number will reach 1:230, which is equivalent that one caregiver has to take care of 230 elderly people over 80 years old.
The increase of disabled groups and the early arrival of an aging society have made hospitals and nursing homes face severe nursing problems.
How to solve the contradiction between supply and demand in the nursing market? Now that there are less nurses, is it possible to let robots replace part of the work?
In fact, artificial intelligence robots can do a lot in the field of nursing care.
In the care of the disabled elderly, urinary care is the most difficult job. Caregivers are physically and mentally exhausted from
cleaning up the toilet several times a day and waking up at night. The cost of hiring a caregiver is high and unstable. Using the intelligent excrement cleaning robot can clean excrement through automatic suction, warm water washing, warm air drying, quiet and odorless, and the nursing staff or family members will no longer have a heavy workload, so that the disabled elderly can live with dignity.
It is difficult for the disabled elderly to eat, which is a headache for the elderly care service. Our company launched a feeding robot to free the hands of family members, allowing the disabled elderly to have meals with their families. Through AI face recognition, the feeding robot intelligently captures changes of mouth, scoops food scientifically and effectively to prevent food from spilling; it can adjust the spoon position without hurting the mouth, identify the food that elderly want to eat through the voice function. When the elderly wants to stop eating , he only needs to close his mouth or nod his head according to the prompt, the feeding robot will automatically retract its arms and stop feeding.
Nursing robots can not only meet the care needs of the disabled and semi-disabled elderly, improve their quality of life, enable them to obtain the greatest degree of independence and dignity, but also relieve the pressure of nursing staff and family members.
Post time: Jul-08-2023
