Robotic Pets Can Dramatically Improve The Lives Of Older Adults With Dementia And Depression

Robotic Pets Can Dramatically Improve The Lives Of Older Adults With Dementia And Depression

Feb 26, 2025 | Press

As millions of older adults across the United States continue to experience loneliness and social isolation, non-profit organizations like Capital Caring Health in Washington, D.C. are turning to robotic pets as a low-cost, high-impact solution. Over the past 4 years, Capital Caring has donated thousands of robotic pets to older adults locally, regionally, and nationally, offering a potential, scalable solution to the nation’s loneliness epidemic.

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Can Social Robots Help the Elderly?

Can Social Robots Help the Elderly?

Feb 19, 2025 | Industry Topics

There is a shortage of in-home care aids and nursing facilities also struggle to remain fully staffed.

Some researchers and advocates for aging people believe that eventually robots may be able to help with caretaking in both a social capacity and also through assistive tasks in the home and in long-term care facilities like assisted living.

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For America’s lonely seniors, robot pets are more than a novelty

For America’s lonely seniors, robot pets are more than a novelty

Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Posts, Press

Technology is often viewed as a contributor to our culture’s epidemic of loneliness and isolation, but one company is trying to prove the opposite. Ageless Innovation’s meowing “cats,” wagging “dogs,” and chirping “birds” have lifted the spirits of many seniors, with numerous state-sponsored programs funding the interactive, animatronic pets for veterans and those in hospice care. Three Washington, D.C. wards recently began distributing the Joy for All Companion Pets to residents 60 and older.

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