Can a VR headset serve as a companion to someone in a nursing home? Can an AI-powered robot care for a disabled 80-year-old? And, if so, who pays? These are some of the questions we're going to have to answer as a society — and some of them, pretty soon, attendees at the On Aging 2026 conference in Atlanta said this week. I was there, and at 25, I was one of the youngest in the audience. Opinions, of course, varied. Some spoke positively about the new frontier of technology that could help care