Japan employs robots to help dementia patients as thousands go missing

As a concerned citizen, I was really shocked to learn that over 18,000 people with dementia wandered off and went missing in Japan just last year. It’s heartbreaking to think that nearly 500 of them were sadly found deceased. What’s even more worrying is that these incidents are happening twice as often as they did in 2012. With Japan’s population getting older and fewer people available to provide care, the government is now looking to technology as a way to help prevent these tragedies.






