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VICTOR WANG CARE.COACH's CEO was studying humanmachine interaction at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CARE.COACH的總裁王先生在麻省理工學院研究人機交互時，
when his grandmother in Taiwan was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia,
他在臺灣的祖母被診斷出患有路易體癡呆，
a disease that affects memory and movement.
這是一種影響記憶和行動的疾病。
On Skype calls, Wang watched her grow increasingly debilitated.
通過Skype，他看到祖母的身體越來越虛弱。
After one such call, a thought struck him: Could he tap remote labor to comfort her and others like her?
打完電話后，他突然有了一個想法：遠程安慰祖母和像祖母一樣的人?
In 2012, he launched Care.coach with a fellow MIT student.
2012年，他和麻省理工學院的學生推出了Care.coach。
The company's tablets are now used by hospitals and health plans across the country.
該公司的平板電腦現在被投入到全國各地的醫院健康計劃當中。
In a study conducted by Pace University, Care.coach's avatars were found to reduce subjects' loneliness, delirium, and falls.
佩斯大學的研究發現，Care.coach的替身可以減少受試者的孤獨、譫妄和落寞。
A health provider in Massachusetts was able to replace a man's 11 weekly in-home nurse visits with a Care.coach tablet.
馬薩諸塞州的一名健康服務人員用Care.coach 的平板電腦代替了醫護人員每周11次的上門護理。
(The man said the pet's nagging was like having his wife back in the house—in a good way.)
（該男子表示，寵物的嘮叨就像妻子回到家里一樣——這個方式很好。）
