How can we keep the the mind of a person with Alzheimer’s 24 hours of 24 always active? A treacherous challenge without increasing the already exorbitant cost of health care staff in nursing homes. A puzzle that in Scandinavia seems to have found a solution. Recently, in fact, ultra-sophisticated robots have started to be successfully operated in Sweden, Denmark and Finland that are able to entertain and above all, to improve the intellectual capacity of many older people. From the teddy bear to the sweet seal, these artificial humanoids with high intelligence, besides being able to lift and carry weights of 80 kg, do offer a large number of useful features for brain stimulation. Playing chess, suggesting mnemonic quizzes and, if necessary, even have pleasant conversation with the patient. These robot nurses, which can operate at any time, are in fact able to prevent dementia sufferers to remain far too often and too long alone with themselves. Beyond the controversies that as with all the news this paradoxical and even grotesque replacement of humans with machines certainly triggers, it is clear that it presents an aspect that is definitely positive: the replacement of the nurse who is not there.
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