AI companies promise to ‘fix’ aged care, but they’re selling a false narrative
- Written by Barbara Barbosa Neves, Senior Horizon Fellow, AI and Ageing, University of Sydney
Mark Hang Fung So/UnsplashAustralia’s Royal Commission into Aged Care found a broken system. Now, technology companies are promising artificial intelligence (AI) will fix everything, from staff shortages to older people’s loneliness.
This is known as agetech, an industry projected to reach a global value of A$170 billion by 2030. But...





