On 12/9/2024 at 9:32 PM, DavisH said:

Not when 40 million are over 60! The current fertility rate is far below the optimal fertility rate of 2.1. This will cause major problems in the coming decades. 

Long story short, wife's daughter is in our local provincial hospital, looking at the wards the average age of women must be 60 plus, the nurses are doing a good job.

As it is going, those wards are going to get fuller with older people as the demographic's change, and the doctors and nurses, and all the ancillary staff to look after them will be getting less, as it is the ward is 90% full.

It is a problem worldwide with no real answer.

 

On 12/10/2024 at 1:05 PM, henryford1958 said:

Like most of the world getting a new car and iPhone is more important than having a family.

Seems reasonable. Get something useful instead of something that will require large financial support, and often with no benefit to the parents once the offspring depart the home.

3 hours ago, kickstart said:

As it is going, those wards are going to get fuller with older people as the demographic's change, and the doctors and nurses, and all the ancillary staff to look after them will be getting less, as it is the ward is 90% full.

It is a problem worldwide with no real answer.

 

Won't be a problem once AI robotics makes 70 to 90% of manual workers redundant. One of the few jobs requiring a human will be in hospital and specifically in aged care.

Nothing new about majority of patients being older. That was the case in the 80s when I started nursing.

20 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Won't be a problem once AI robotics makes 70 to 90% of manual workers redundant. One of the few jobs requiring a human will be in hospital and specifically in aged care.

Nothing new about majority of patients being older. That was the case in the 80s when I started nursing.

That is right, about majority of patients being older, it will be a case they will be a lot more of them, needing more staff to look after them.

Watching the nurses working in a hospital ward it will be a very long time before any AI robotics make any one redundant, a robot giving an injection IV, moving patients about, not in our lifetime and what about some interacting between patients and nursing staff, it keeps some patients going.

Robots doing the cleaning serving food yes, taking over a lot of nursing jobs cannot see it . 

4 hours ago, kickstart said:

That is right, about majority of patients being older, it will be a case they will be a lot more of them, needing more staff to look after them.

Watching the nurses working in a hospital ward it will be a very long time before any AI robotics make any one redundant, a robot giving an injection IV, moving patients about, not in our lifetime and what about some interacting between patients and nursing staff, it keeps some patients going.

Robots doing the cleaning serving food yes, taking over a lot of nursing jobs cannot see it . 

Errrrr, you seem confused about what I wrote. I thought that "One of the few jobs requiring a human will be in hospital and specifically in aged care" indicated that robots will NOT replace humans involved in patient care in hospitals. At least not in the foreseeable future.