Companion robots are playing an ever-increasing role in helping busy people look after the elderly and children.

在帮助忙碌的人们照顾老人和小孩这方面，护理机器人正在发挥着越来越重要的作用。

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China is running out of children to look after the elderly, a state of affairs often summed up by the formula "4-2-1" : four grandparents, two parents, one child.

中国赡养老人的孩子快不够了，如今一家三代成员的总体情况可以用这样一个“4-2-1”的公式来概括，即四个(外)祖父母、两个父母和一个孩子。

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And some elderly look after their grandchildren, which is the main task for elderly in the country.

有些老年人照顾他们的孙子，这在全国是老年人的主要任务。

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HMOs have been unable to raise premiums in this area by more than 2-3% a year, even though the elderly are the costliest people of all to look after.

ECONOMIST: American insurance

For example, under Rand's schema would a person who abandons some passion in order to look after an elderly parent have a higher or lower moral standing than someone who doesn't (assuming that the parents are equally worthy)?

FORBES: Uncommon Sense

As there are limits to the tolerance of people who had to get on with their everyday lives at the same time as worrying about where to put their rubbish, how to light their street and look after an elderly neighbour, and because there are limits to BBC filming budgets, this experiment lasted just six weeks.

BBC: The Street That Cut Everything