Invasion Of The Robot Snatchers Coming To A Nursing Home Near You

I agree, nothing is more important to elderly or disabled people than human company. I would hate that in my old age all I had was a robot with my son's face on a screen. Nevertheless, I did chuckle to myself to see it dressed in a mauve shirt!

My Grandmother bred and trained Guide Dogs for the Blind for over 30 years and found it very rewarding, despite very emotional when the puppies that she had trained for a year went off to their new owners. I would recommentd it to anyone who has enough time to give to this worthwhile cause.

On my hunt around the world of gadgets, I found this article:

http://ezinearticles.com/?New-Gadgets-to-Watch-Out-For-in-2009&id=162889...

It shows what new and exciting bits of technology we'll see in the new year, I found it rather interesting.

Thaks for a great blog!

Victoria

 I do a lot of writing for the senior care industry, and this is definitely a new and interesting one to me! I can see the robot and chair making some great contributions from a medical perspective and would provide a good alternative for relatives who cannot visit physically.

Beth Hodgson
Innovative Business Writer

it is useful to have a mini robot who could do a lot of stuff for those with backpain.

...but there are bad points too. One $$$$$. If this would be for those seniors and for people with disibilities does one think that they could just pull that money out of their pockets. It may be nice for some individuals but it doesn't really replace the human touch. After all one could just have a webcam sitting with a cup of tea chatting face to face in a relaxing atmisphere.

Sure with a robot one could do those chores but wouldn't it just be much better to have people become more socialized, helping their neighbours and so forth. We have attendence to go and forget the human touch as the robot may have the head of that person but a body of nuts and bolts. lol. Really the human body not really being there and that's more important and also lowers one blood pressure when you think about it a animal does much better for that too.

A service dog will always cost about $4,000 and up that isn't because not enough trainers but because the extensive training these dogs have to go through. 15 months to 2 years of training from puppy stage to task training. Multiple tasks as well along with any follow ups that is necessary. The cost comes from lots of donations, gifts and fundraising. However it's worth having a service dog because of the living being touch.

I could see having such a robot when one deals with medical needs. Only thing is it would be my experience that the robot would have a meltdown when I would need it the most. grins.

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sure if it was a perfect world but to find people that are nice and/or wont try to take something etc is hard indeed at least in this country I live in. Then with people you also need to match personalities somewhat, it's hard to find people who are honest, kind, works hard and don't do anything wrong and don't steal and so infact sometimes a robot should be given. In fact I have seen those who help elderly and disabled for a fee sit around and talk on their "breaks". Yeah those who really need small robots who do chores cant afford them even the "cheaper" price is to expensive for me with backpain and I'm not elderly yet. I wouldn't hire those who "help" elderly and disabled around here even though the top are oblivious and think they are doing good. Like they sit to long and talk about private stuff on work hours and they sit and smoke cigarettes even though some of the people they are visiting probably cant handle smoke from clothes (a lot of the time smoke do get on clothes and do smell of smoke) then they don't do the job properly either.

the goverment should give those for free. But yeah that wont happen

forgot to say that such robots can be there to look to see if the help do it correctly if it's a help outside of the family that is paid.