Age Care

With the nursing workforce getting older, and more and more in-home care being done by just one worker, this super-portable, inflatable patient transfer device could help save a lot of backs and knees, by doing much of the heavy lifting.

Even the healthiest over-65s are at risk of taking a fall, but monitoring their movements can impact heavily on their independence. Researchers have developed a system to monitor elderly people in their homes, watching out for signs that a fall might be imminent and alerting caregivers.

A group of MIT researchers in MIT's Agelab have created a suit to help people understand what it might be like to navigate the world as a senior citizen.

It might look like a cross between a snowman and a badly-designed toy polar bear, but the nursing fraternity should appreciate this robot that can lift patients in and out of beds and wheelchairs on command, while at the same time saving nurses’ backs and improving patient care and safety.

Almost 80 million baby boomers will retire in the next 30 years in America, stretching aged care and health care services to the limit. Could robots like uBOT-5 help ease the load for medical and caregiving teams by aiding the elderly to remain independent for longer?

July 13, 2007 We all know how important it is to get along with colleagues in the workplace and robots it seems, are no different. With this in mind, industrial