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"Robots will be practically everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and security service providers, and they will circulate within a networked environment of communicating devices in the home and work place, " said Ohad Shvueli, Vice President, Commercial markets, Primesense.
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Mr Burnham added that "systematic improvement" was needed to enable the government to fulfil its pledge of establishing a "national care service" to provide free personal care to elderly people in their homes.
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On care of the elderly, for example, they say the objective must be to integrate service provision so that the first option is not automatically hospitalisation, the most costly.
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Its two high street stores have helped fund work which includes support for elderly people living in poverty, emergency grants, welfare rights advice and a hospital after-care service.
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It has also introduced annual appraisals for doctors and new national service frameworks aimed at stamping out variations in the care given to children, the elderly, people with mental illness and those with serious diseases like cancer.
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Medicare Advantage plans are privately-run and contract with the government health insurance program for the elderly to provide same benefits offered under traditional fee-for-service Medicare plus some extras like vision care, prescriptions or certain additional outpatient and wellness benefits.
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