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Some critics, such as Sherry Turkle, PhD, a professor of social studies, science, and technology at MIT, view roboticized eldercare as a cop-out.
一些批評人士，如麻省理工學(xué)院的博士、社會(huì)研究和科學(xué)技術(shù)教授雪莉·特克認(rèn)為，機(jī)器人化老年護(hù)理是一種逃避。
"This kind of app is making us forget what we really know about what makes older people feel sustained," she says—caring interpersonal relationships.
她說：“這種應(yīng)用程序讓我們忘記了那些讓老年人感到持續(xù)的東西——關(guān)愛的人際關(guān)系。”
For many families, though, providing long-term, in-person care is simply unsustainable.
然而，對許多家庭來說，提供長期的個(gè)人護(hù)理是不可持續(xù)的。
Between 2010 and 2030, the population of those older than 80 is projected to rise 79 percent,
從2010年到2030年，80歲以上的人口預(yù)計(jì)將增長79%，
but the number of family caregivers available is expected to increase just 1 percent.
但是家庭護(hù)理人員的數(shù)量預(yù)計(jì)只增加1%。
Among eldercare experts, there's a resignation that the demographics of an aging America will make technological solutions unavoidable.
在老年護(hù)理專家中，有一種觀點(diǎn)認(rèn)為，老齡化美國的人口結(jié)構(gòu)將使技術(shù)解決方案不可避免。
Joseph Coughlin, PhD, director of MIT's AgeLab, is pragmatic.
麻省理工學(xué)院老年實(shí)驗(yàn)室主任——約瑟夫·考夫林博士的想法很務(wù)實(shí)。
"I would always prefer the human touch over a robot," he says.
“比起機(jī)器人，我更喜歡人的觸摸，”他說。
"But if there's no human available, I would take high tech in lieu of high touch."
“但如果沒有人的話，我會(huì)選擇高科技來代替高接觸。”
