1 week Ago By The Straits Times
Jeannette Ickovics and May Lee Bright Hill Evergreen Home residents in Punggol interacting with Dexie, the humanoid robot. Seventy-five-year-old Deng Jie Huan paces up and down his HDB flat in Bukit Batok, waiting for visitors who never come. With a strained relationship with his son and no friends to check on him, he feels isolated and lonely.
When asked by a media interviewer how he spends his day, the senior citizen replied: “I live with my son, just the two of us. He goes out around nine and doesn’t come back until 11 or 12 at night. So we seldom communicate.
I want to keep myself from being bored at home. I just walk around by myself.” Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.
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