Many countries are having to deal with rising numbers of elderly people and a shortage of caregivers.  Read this article from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News to discover how Japan hopes to create an army of robot nurses in order to solve it’s workforce shortage.

The Japanese government announced Wednesday that it hopes to have both the robot nurses and the safety guidelines for their use in place within five years, according to news reports. Officials at the ministry of trade and industry said a new agency, the Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, has been created to improve safety standards for robots over the next five years. Japan currently produces 70% of the world’s industrial robots, according to an AFP report.

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