From the listening devices that discover the fall to “Patient incubatorSystems in hospitals and Robots that help exercise In care homes, Singapore is looking to artificial intelligence to help manage the health of its elderly residents.

By 2030, a quarter of Singaporene It will be 65 or larger – In 2010, the number was one in 10 – It is estimated that about 6000 nurses and careers will need an annual appointment to the meeting The targets of the health force in Singapore.

There is an urgent need for technology to help fill the care gap in Singapore and other places, according to Loan de Fu, a research colleague at the Public Health Health School in Singapore. Societies around the world “Unprepared“For the aging of the population, Fu wrote in the magazine of Science Journal Frontiers last month, and with his participating authors described artificial intelligence and other technologies as” pivotal powers with the ability to lead the transformation of the model in health care. “

For Foo, artificial intelligence is scheduled to play a “huge” role in caring for the elderly in Singapore, in terms of helping doctors manage the non -acute conditions and oversee administrative tasks such as monitoring the availability of hospital family, he said in an email message to CNBC. “When the elderly in Singapore gets more smart people, we see them resorting to remote communications and digital tools that use artificial intelligence technology,” he said.

Artificial intelligence is also used to discover diseases earlier, a field of personal interest for Dr. Han Echio, a research colleague at Li Quan Yu College for Public Policy in Singapore. He said it was possible to diagnose his late mother’s disease of diabetes – and to treat it – earlier the artificial intelligence testing methods were available when she was alive, as it was now. “It was very useful when the family was going through this trip,” CHO told CNBC by phone.

The great focus on Singapore is “aging in place,” according to Yu. “We can spread artificial intelligence, but it is not a matter of fully replacing humanitarian care … it really relates to helping caregivers and helping the elderly stay independent and age in place,” CNBC told CNBC.

Chew said that the Singapore Housing and Development Council provides even integrated home technology Discover when someone falls Below, with an alert sent to the relatives of the resident or connected to the call center for help.

Chew said that these types of monitoring technology need to be used carefully, in any specialty that is published. “Artificial intelligence must enable the elderly and not strip them of control. They still need the option to choose, adjust the borders, and most importantly, stop it when they want,” CNBC told CNBC.

It is not Singapore that is only looking for the use of artificial intelligence for elderly care. In the United States, Sensi.ai is a “co -developed pilot” monitors the elderly who use sound devices that are usually connected to three areas of their homes.

Rumi Gobs, co -founder of the company company, said that technology can provide care providers more than 100 different visions, and alert them to early signs of urinary or respiratory infections, or to fall or cognitive decrease. “We combine multiple indicators that come from the sound,” Gubeis told CNBC by video call. “Think, for example, respiratory infection. This will [take into account] She said the rhythm of coughing, frequency, and the type of cough, with … complaints about fever, and dizziness. “

When Sensi.ai is installed at home, it creates a “basic line” over a period of two weeks, referring to a group of “vocal indicators”, including non -verbal sounds, such as things that are transferred, steps or snoring, which combine its clinical knowledge of its team. Once artificial intelligence knows the basic sounds at home, sponsorship providers can alert any audio anomalies that may suggest a health problem.

Gobs said that Sensi is used by “tens of thousands” of the elderly in the United States, a company spokesman said in discussions about the potential expansion in Asia.

CNBC experts spoke to Amnesty International carefully when it comes to higher health care.

Fu warned that excessive use of artificial intelligence in consulting may lead to “bad health results” because not all elderly people can use technology, and warned that he should be properly designed to avoid “perpetuating digital life.” In fact, the World Health Organization to caution“, The implicit and explicit biases of society, including age, are often repeated in artificial intelligence techniques,” and 2022 Political summary The developers urged the participation of the elderly in the design of new technology.

In Singapore, the government “Action plan for successful aging“Details of its goals, such as reaching 550,000 elderly who have a healthy and well -being program and reduces hospital deaths from 61 % to 51 % between 2023 and 2028.

But Fu said that the opinions of the elderly should be taken into consideration when determining how artificial intelligence meets their health needs. “Like all new initiatives, failure will be inevitable if the audience, the elderly, is not on board. We are. [need] To hear their voices and allocate the national Health-Ei strategy to suit their needs while not removing the human care for health care. This is the challenge, ”he told CNBC via email.

For Chew, the elderly care approach will need to mix human and the machine, describing it as “high technique, but a high touch.” “It is better to use artificial intelligence as an additional set of eyes, ears and robots [are an] He said that an additional set of hands, but not as an alternative to giving human care high touch.