[druiid]

Japan has found out pretty much the same thing. With a huge aging population and not enough people to care for them they have/are encountering this issue sooner than the US has (mostly).

One of the interesting answers to the problem for the Japanese has been to work toward mechanized solutions to many problems that might otherwise have been performed by additional workers. If any of them are actually reasonable I think has yet to be seen. I do know that on a nearly daily basis I see some new robot meant to care for or interact with the elderly population. It's kind of an interesting development and oddly seems to have pushed for more expressive and capable robots.

[thwest]

I don't the USA following Japan here. The US is more amenable to immigration and less amenable to providing universal healthcare that can afford a several thousand dollar personal robot.