3 main ways in which a robot might be used it elderly care
1.assitance
2.monitering
3.companionship
Care
meeting of the needs of one person by another person for example through face-to-face interaction between the carer and individual be cared for
Second definition of care
expresses ethically significant ways in which matter to each other transforming interpersonal relatedness.
2 effects Robot technology has
increases the autonomy of the elderly
-decreases their dependence on other people
Deontological thinking
rule based/duty-based thinking
Consequentialism thinking
outcomes may justify the means