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The senior care system faces converging pressures from an growing older inhabitants, extreme staffing shortages, and restricted time for particular person wellness programming. Current applied sciences embrace reminder apps, fall detectors, voice assistants, and companion gadgets. Every of those addresses just one piece of the issue. This paper argues for a distinct paradigm: wellness, outlined throughout seven interdependent dimensions, because the organizing precept for a brand new class of socially assistive robotic. It introduces the Care Robotic Autonomy Scale (CRAS), a six-level framework that measures autonomy throughout evaluation, intervention, social intelligence, and care coordination. The paper evaluations the technical capabilities such programs require, the scientific proof gathered so far, and a phased roadmap towards larger autonomy. It closes with academic implications for care operators, researchers, regulators, and robotic platform builders.
