Werner Vogels

It's a major problem for them, you know.

But even mothers don't talk to their daughters about it.

However, that is slowly changing.

What kind of things do we see in the startup community that are trying to build, whether it's technology products or whether it is medicine or whatever, to solve those kind of problems?

And so I also try to talk a little bit about things that people normally find a bit harder to talk about.

It's one of these problems.

Actually, I did this documentary series called Now Go Build, TV series.

Probably two, three years ago, I was in Japan for that.

Actually, and that's where I first really dove deep in this particular topic.

So Japan really was a society where kids take care of the elderly.

The grandparents live with the grandkids and the kids.

And that was normal.

But the younger kids want to start making a career.

And there is a clear shift in Japanese society happening where the elderly are no longer taken care of by the younger people.

And as such, you know, that's a shocker.

Not for the young kids, it's a shocker for the old people.

They're really on their own.

And...

I think, and indeed, I think that there are a lot of technology solutions possible to help these people.

One of the things, and loneliness is something we'll get to, but anything we can do as technologists to keep people longer out of hospitals or whatever, care homes or whatever, the better it is.