Others see the robots as a new means of mobility for the elderly, allowing them to stay in better contact with friends and family and visit museums and theaters, among other possible applications.

还有人认为机器人是为老年人准备的一种新的移动手段，使他们能与朋友和家人保持更好的联系，除了其它可能的应用以外，还可以光顾博物馆和剧院。

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The OECD report attributes the rise to 'weakening social integration and erosion of the traditional family support base for the elderly, ' as well as a fast-changing economy over much of the period.

OECD在报告中将自杀率升高归因于“社会融合的弱化、家庭赡养老人这一传统的退化”，以及上述时期中多半处于快速增长状态的经济。

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Among them are the elderly, a growing share of the population, who want easy access to transport, doctors, hospitals, cinemas and above all family and friends.

他们中很多是人口中所占比例与来越大的老年人，他们希望自己住在离交通、医生、医院、影院以及家人和朋友更近的地方。

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And tens of thousands of elderly Koreans have not seen family members they left behind since the North invaded the South in 1950.

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The family lived modestly in the top floor of a multifamily house on a side street in Cambridge, the friend said, helped partly by Section 8 housing funds and the largess of their landlord, an elderly woman who also tutored and helped the family place the children in good local schools.

WSJ: A Look at the Brothers

While the Maintenance of Parents Act, and the general social pressure to take care of the elderly within the family, has so far ensured most Singaporean senior citizens, there are signs of change in the social fabric.

BBC: Under One Roof?

It's a quick exchange, but an apt illustration of the issue at the crux of this play, which is that this brash young American cannot conceive of what family means to this elderly Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and the deaths of her immediate family.

WSJ: Review: Redgrave is raw, moving in Eisenberg play