Hello, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Coming up, the high-tech world of elderly care, how robots are taking on dementia.

It's so clear that we will have too few people to take care of elderly.

So he is sure that robotics will play a large part in

elderly care. And how street racing video games can become fuel for elderly brains.

We have games that use virtual reality to challenge your spatial navigation and try to improve

your memory. We have games that challenge you physically. So yeah, we have a whole

research program to really commercialize it as a new type of experiential digital medicine.

Using tech to address the challenges of old age, that's Business Daily from the BBC.

Well, care for the elderly may have seemed like a fringe part of the global economic chat over recent decades, but not anymore.

The UN reckons that falling birth rates and increased life expectancy mean there will be about 200 million extra people on the planet needing special care by the end of the next decade.

That is a lot of people.

But who's going to look after them?

It's going to cost an estimated $4 trillion extra dollars,

according to the United Nations.

One way to cut the costs just might be offered by technology.

Already a vast array of apps and gadgets have been rolled out

to help senior citizens who wish to remain at home,

independent and paid care. And in care homes themselves, robots are making more and more of an

impact. I saw for myself last week on a trip to the Japanese city of Yokohama, at a care

home there specialising in dementia patients.

I don't know. specialising in dementia patients. Well, I'm now just stepped into a room of Mrs. Karasawa,

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