When the elderly become disabled, the real problem of elderly care arises. Once an elderly person becomes disabled, he or she needs to be cared for full-time by someone who cannot leave him or her at all. In this situation, you start to need real care. It is impossible for others to serve you with food and clothing, nor can they help you carry out your excrement and urine. The only ones who can truly provide these services are your children and caregivers.
In the eyes of many people, a nursing home is a good place where someone will serve you to eat, dress, and bathe you every day, and then you and a group of old people can have fun together. These are the most basic requirements (fantasy) for nursing homes. Some people even think that nursing homes should let caregivers provide chat and even massage services to the elderly.
Do you know how much nursing home caregivers are paid? Most of them are less than 3,000 yuan per month. A high-end luxury nursing home that charges 10,000 yuan per month can pay caregivers as much as four to five thousand, but the vast majority of caregivers in ordinary nursing homes only earn about two to three thousand. Even though the wages for nursing workers are so low, nursing homes are a notoriously low-profit industry, with only 5 to 6% profit. Expenditure costs and income are almost all clearly stated, and their profits are pitiful compared to the huge basic investment. Therefore, the salary of caregivers cannot be raised.
However, the work intensity of these nursing workers is very strong, They need to dress, feed, bathe the elderly, serve the elderly change diapers... Moreover, it is a nurse who docks many old people. Nursing workers are also human beings. What kind of mentality do you think nurses will have?
What services should a real nursing home provide? The assessment of nursing staff in nursing homes mainly focuses on whether the elderly's bodies are clean, whether there is any odor, and whether they eat and take medicine on time. There is no way to assess whether the old man is happy, and it is impossible to assess it. Therefore, all the work of the nursing staff mainly revolves around cleaning, changing diapers for the elderly on time, sweeping and mopping the floors of the elderly's rooms on time, etc.
Nowadays, people often say that "a disabled old man can destroy a family", and there has long been a saying that "there is no filial son in bed for a long time." Putting aside the moral implications, it reflects the difficulty of taking care of a disabled elderly person. So, if there is a disabled elderly person at home, what should we do? Should you take care of them yourself or entrust them to a nursing home? Are there any good ways to take care of the disabled elderly?
In the future, artificial intelligence will be one of the most effective solutions. From "Siri" that can chat with you, to smart speakers that can help you turn on the TV, from language translation to AI online education, from facial recognition payment to driverless driving...artificial intelligence is gradually penetrating into life various fields, and the elderly care industry is no exception.
Take the example of bathing the elderly. The traditional way is a manual bath, which requires three or four people in pension institutions, to boil a lot of water and operate in a large enough space, which is time-consuming, laborious, and costly. But if use our portable bath machine, only 5 liters of water, one person operation, can let the elderly in bed to complete the whole body cleaning and shampoo and other services, greatly improving the traditional bath methods, not only the elderly nursing staff from the heavy work procedures but also can greatly protect the privacy of the elderly, improve the comfort of the bathing process.
In terms of dining, the feeding robot integrates cutting-edge technologies such as AI facial recognition to capture the elderly's eyes, mouth, the changes of voice, and then can accurately and humanely feed the food, and help elderly people with limited mobility complete their meals. When the elderly is full, he only needs to close his mouth or nod according to the prompts, and it will automatically retract the robotic arm and stop feeding.
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, smart elderly care is bringing more dignity to the elderly and freeing up more care time for their families.
Post time: Sep-26-2023
