Can robots help us care for an aging population?
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The number of people 85 years and older is expected to double in the U.K. over the next couple of decades. Apian, a London-based health care logistics company that partners with the National Health Service, thinks automation can help. We visit Apian to understand how automated robots could ease the burden of caring for an aging population. Also in this episode: A pilot pushes for menopause policies at British Airways, and an entrepreneur launches a skincare business at 50.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the program, the story of an aging workforce told in three parts. |
| 0:09.6 | From American public media, this is Marketland. In London, England, |
| 0:25.5 | Today, I'm Kai Rizdahl. |
| 0:27.0 | It is Wednesday, 16 July. |
| 0:29.6 | It is always to have you along with us, everybody along for more from our series, |
| 0:34.3 | The Age of Work. |
| 0:35.7 | What the demographic changes happening in the United |
| 0:38.2 | States and across the rest of the planet are going to mean for our economic future. |
| 0:43.2 | All right. Meet the Makers, Crafty Fox Market, established 2010. |
| 0:48.1 | Let's see what we have here. |
| 0:50.4 | Part one of our story, The Personal, has me, Neela Richardson, she's ADP's chief economist, and our partner on this project. |
| 0:58.4 | We're at Kings Cross, central London-ish, if you're unfamiliar, walking by an outdoor exercise class and a water park full of kids into a pop-up market inside what looks to be a rehabbed warehouse, high ceilings, brick walls, |
| 1:14.0 | dozens of tables with vendors selling jewelry and art and pottery, also body butters. |
| 1:20.7 | My name's Steve Anilwell. I'm the founder of DatSit Skin Care Limited. |
| 1:24.5 | Tell me about your company, DatSit. |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, so That's It Skincare. So basically what I did |
| 1:29.5 | is, I started this company when I was 50. Wow. Wait, how old are you now? |
| 1:35.3 | 54 now. All right. So it's my fourth year of trading. Okay. Basically what happens is I've been |
| 1:40.3 | making this skincare for my family for about eight or nine years. One of my |
| 1:44.3 | children had, um, like, skincare conditions. So I started off looking at YouTube recipes and all that |
| 1:50.3 | sorts of stuff. Just doing it in your kitchen. Just in my kitchen, trying different things, |
| 1:54.0 | trying it on the kids. Kids will tell you straight, you can't make me do that. That's too greasy. |
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