Japan's vigorous development of intelligent retirement robots can not only care but also play with others.
source: reference message network responsibility editor: Zhang Cheng
Hong Kong media said that the solution of population ageing has become a global urgent problem, Japanese The aging of the population ranks the highest in the world. Pioneers in the use of new technology to protect the elderly and community transformation are among the pioneers.
according to Hongkong's "Ming Bao" reported in March 24th, the application of Japanese robot nursing care is becoming more and more extensive and helpful to the nursing staff and the elderly, and even improve the elderly with cognitive problems to improve their social life. Many scholars believe that in Japan, when the nursing manpower gap is hard to find a supplement, robots will become the way to protect the elderly.
the special nursing home for the elderly in central Tokyo is one of the 10 nursing homes in the District, with 40 people living in a long-term residence. Kawanishi Masaaki, the director of the hospital, pointed out that the nursing staff had health problems such as low back pain under heavy work. In 2013, the hospital had introduced mechanical assistance to provide nursing services to ensure the safety of the elderly, to reduce the burden of nursing staff and to improve the efficiency of nursing.
in addition to assisting in nursing, the hospital also uses machinery to help improve the quality of life of the elderly. Western Sichuan said that the hospital introduced intelligent robots PALRO and Pepper to communicate with the elderly in 2015, aiming to provide entertainment for their friends. Since last April, the hospital has further tried to use these robots to cooperate with new programs to improve the cognition of the elderly.
in September last year, Japan's general affairs department announced that over 65 of the elderly population reached 34 million 610 thousand, accounting for 27.3% of the total population, the highest among the advanced countries. It is expected that the shortage of nurses will reach 380 thousand in 2025 due to the decrease of the labor population and the rising demand for nursing care, and many experts are expected to be up to 500 thousand of the shortage.
although the authorities have allowed hospitals and nursing institutions to introduce nurses from Indonesia, Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries since 2008, the threshold is very high. In addition to the need to speak Japanese fluently, it is also necessary to pass the Japanese nursing qualification examination. Even if the authorities have a few months of language training to the candidates, the rate of qualification is still still Low. In 2014 only about 20% of Indonesian nursing staff passed the examination.
in the case of hard work, robots are becoming the way to fill the vacancy of the nursing staff in Japan, such as the government funded Japanese Institute of science and Chemistry (RIKEN), which aims to promote the development of old robots, including a robot designed to help the elderly move, Robear. The new energy and Industrial Technology Development Agency (NEDO) of Japan (NEDO) points out that the market for nursing robots is expected to grow to $3 billion 700 million in 2035, or as a sample of other countries.