older adults

Older Americans prepare for a world transformed by artificial intelligence

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NORTHFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The students — most of them gray-haired, some with canes, all of them in their 60s or older — couldn’t believe their ears. “Oh my God,” whispered a retired professor. “Does it come with viruses?” wondered a bewildered woman scribbling on the second row of notes. A 79-year-old woman in a … Read more

For lonely elderly people: is a robot friend the solution?

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In the months after her husband of 65 years died, Dorothy Elicati did nothing but cry. “We had a beautiful relationship and I miss him like I would miss my right arm,” said Elicati, 84. She said she found it unbearable to be alone in the house and that she might have “lost her mind” … Read more