Caring for a dementia patient properly is all consuming for the caretakers. You don’t want to do this to your family. Getting help from a robot would be a win win for all.
Seriously. My grandpa had dementia for 10 years. Pretty much everyone in my family doesn't want to inflict that on anyone else.
Senile people are going to love the AIs of 10 years from now, I guarantee you. Once it has perfect audio control and responses, it's going to be like the perfect friend for an old person.
I would hope the solution would be both... humans augmented by computers so that the humans aren't overloaded and overly burdened.
Love is a burden no way around it. Some burdens are worth carrying however.
We'll just need to create an AI that'll emulate love semi-perfectly.
Let us reimplement love in Rust from first principles to solve this inconvenience. Nothing can go wrong, it’ll be so disruptive and innovative.
Don't engage in negative sum transactions. The burden on families by a dementia patient is often higher than the benefit the dementia patient gets.