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As someone who works with robots for a living, please please please stop suggesting this. It is also pretty clear you haven't spent any time with the elderly. Please don't make me talk to the robot when I get old, getting old is hard enough, I don't want to be dropped by the robot and then left on the ground for 3 hours because they have used the robot as an excuse to understaff even more than they already do.
Elderly people are lonely and isolate you say? What about a 1 ton "self driving" refrigerator that can crush your head with its fists. This is exactly what I want tumbling around a person with bones made out of glass. Imagine grandpa working the voice command interface on this thing.
Problems like understaffing are already happening, and I've read plenty of horror stories about elder abuse at nursing homes in US and Canada. This is a social problem first and foremost. It's an artifact of the atomized society that stems from liberalism and individualism. That's the problem we need to focus on.
That doesn't mean robotics will alleviate it in any way. It's a social problem that will not be helped by robotics.
I'm saying that robots are only problematic if you already have a social problem to begin with. I'm also not claiming that robotics would help the social problem anywhere. However, I think the use of robotics can make life easier when you don't have social problems the likes of which we see in US and Canada.