Advances in wearable technology and robotics means good news for nursing homes
When your loved one is in a nursing home, you want to make sure that they get the treatment that they need every day. But, it can be hard for staff to manage all the patients in a nursing home. The staff can't be with every patient at all times of the day. However, they soon might not need to thanks to the new technologies in the fields of wearables and robotics. Now, keeping nursing home patients and healthy is becoming easier than ever. 
Wearable technology that monitors vitals (such as Fitbit) are already being deployed in technologically advanced nursing homes - being incorporated in care routines. Even if patients can't be monitored often, at least their vitals can. If one of their vitals indicates that there's a problem then staff can be deployed. In Japan, the population over 65 makes up to 20% of the population, compared to the usual 10% in most 1st world countries. Thanks to the aging baby boomer generation, we'll reach 20% in a few decades. This has caused a large shortage of nursing home staff. To remedy this, many nursing homes in Japan are making use of robots. One of the robots being used is Sanbot. 
Sanbot can connect with wearables and monitor them 24/7 like we mentioned earlier. If Sanbot detects an unusual vital then it can approach the patient and ask questions if there's a problem then Sanbot contacts staff. If the vitals return to normal then Sanbot makes a note of it. A lot of elderly people find smartphones unintuitive and hard to use. Sanbot solves this by being completely operable through voice commands. This way, you don't need any technical skills to interact with Sanbot. Sanbot also aims to fix the number one problem that patients run into in nursing homes: loneliness. Sanbot can connect patients with their families. If their family isn't available, then patients can just talk to Sanbot and be entertained / play games. As the baby boomer generation ages, this may become the future of nursing homes within the coming decade.
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