Can Artificial Intelligence Improve Older Adults' Health?

Fulfilling the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve the health of seniors demands that businesses and entrepreneurs make it more affordable and encourage its adoption by caregivers and seniors' children, reports Next Avenue . It is speculated that AI can help fill a forthcoming caregiving void, amid an increase in the number of older adults who wish to stay at home. It also has been reported that AI may reduce or mitigate the burden of caregiving and help people live at home longer thanks to talking devices, sensors, and machines. However, many of AI's promised benefits have accompanying risks. Connectivity can bring older adults closer to family and friends, but AI also can estrange people from the physical world by replacing human engagement. Others lament that the medical benefits of AI tracking personal data are offset by the erosion of privacy. These problems can be addressed if companies design safe AI and take steps to ameliorate concerns about the proper role for these machines. AI systems also have to address reimbursement for medical applications and resolve socioeconomic and cultural disparities in access and connectivity.