We Funded the Bed, Not the Nurse. Now We’re Being Asked to Fund the Robot.
For about two decades Australia funded aged care by counting beds. Not nurses, not meals. Beds. We got exactly what we counted. Robots are now entering the same sector, and the funding question is live. A robot is easier to count than a bed, and the thing we actually want to buy is the hour of human attention it was supposed to free up.
