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.
Fewer frail older adults use smartphone healthcare apps or telehealth options compared with healthy, non-frail seniors.
But if these devices are so smart, why can’t they talk to each other?
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