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Direct care workers assist older adults and individuals with disabilities with activities of daily living and provide social and emotional support. With the number of older adults increasing rapidly and a persistent workforce shortage, demand is outpacing the supply of workers.
Read the original →The government will test smart home monitoring before deploying AI care robots from 2030. The aim is to support older adults and ease pressure on care workers.
Read the original →INmune Bio (NASDAQ: INMB) and Quantum Computing Inc. (NASDAQ: QUBT) will use QCi's Dirac-3S quantum optimization machine alongside AI and conventional analytics. The aim is to identify new potential applications for XPro, INmune Bio's investigational Alzheimer's treatment.
Read the original →Team Select Home Care bet $6 million on proprietary predictive AI trained on more than a decade of patient records.
Read the original →Nara City will begin a 24-hour consultation service using generative AI from the 14th. The aim is to make it easy for older people with dementia and their caregivers to discuss concerns and connect them with appropriate support.
Read the original →Neyagawa City in Osaka Prefecture announced on the 14th that it will begin a generative AI trial in November to address loneliness and isolation among older people. The core elements are a virtual organization made up only of "AI staff" who can talk at any time, and an interactive AI phone service for welfare consultations. The city is working with Gakken LX, part of Gakken Holdings, and will use its interactive AI phone consultation system.
Read the original →Monakaya Co., Ltd. issued a press release on October 7, 2026, at 10:00. The release announces a talk at H.C.R.2026 on October 9. The talk covers why care AI goes unused and three conditions under which it is used.
Read the original →The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says over 120,000 veterans in the United States are legally blind.
Read the original →Legal counsel from Uber and Netflix spoke at the Association of Corporate Counsel's annual meeting in Boston on Tuesday. They said rapid changes in companies' internal use of artificial intelligence have heightened risks around new innovation and are forcing legal teams to consider scalable governance.
Read the original →Baroness Campbell used the technology in a House of Lords debate about the government's plans for health and social care.
Read the original →Thai Binh Thao Nguyen, an 11th-grade student at Ha Huy Tap High School in Nghe An Province, used AI to convert book content based on a memoir. The aim was to make it more accessible for visually impaired people and others who have difficulty reading.
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