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After Tongtong's grandfather, a retired doctor, is injured in a fall, her busy parents bring home Ah Fu, a robot whose actions are driven in real time by a remote human operator. The proud grandfather resents the machine at first, then comes to depend on it. Later he turns the same kind of setup to his own use and keeps helping other people from his chair, so the device meant to care for him becomes his way of caring for others.
A telepresence robot does not replace the caregiver with automation. It separates the caregiver's body from their location, so human attention can be sent to wherever an elder lives. The warmth of care stays human, and the machine solves only the problem of distance and physical labor. This makes care into something that can be pooled, scheduled, and donated across a network of remote people.
An aging person's resistance to help comes less from technophobia than from losing the role of the capable one who helps others. Care technology succeeds when it lets the dependent person act again, not when it only makes them easier to look after. Accepting help becomes bearable once it comes with a renewed ability to help.