The collapse of the community support network for the elderly people becomes serious in the remarkable depopulation area in Japan. This research proposes to use the social robot in order to improve this problem, which tells necessary local information for the elderly who becomes hardly contact with another residents. Community supporters input the contents, and participate in the use of an information support system. We verify whether fine monitoring and support is achieved by using the social robot.
This research takes action research in the Toi area, Izu City, which reveal the effect of the social robot practical use by the depopulated aging community. The resident representatives discuss about how to gain understanding and cooperation in research in their village, how to decide the privacy policy in their community. And the community supporters who take the course for finding the user and fit the robot to each elderly people’s life. The researchers inspect the effect to the community monitoring and elderlies’ lives.
Furthermore, by comparing with other action researches on issues of the aging area, we will summarize the social condition for community support network with the social robot, the effect of this model on the community-based integrated care system, and publish on the website as well as our research technique. In this way, other regions can be used and promote to establish the new community with advanced technology that supports elderlies.