Nursing Staff's Perspectives of Care Robots for Assisted Living Facilities: Systematic Literature Review.

Journal: JMIR aging
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Care robots have been proposed in response to nursing shortages in assisted living facilities (ALFs) and the growing population of older adults. While the use of care robots may improve the general health and well-being of older adults, their introduction changes the work of nursing staff fundamentally, and it has implications for the entire health care system. In developing such technology, it is important to include end users, but so far, the nursing staff's perspectives have largely been ignored.

Authors

  • Katie Trainum
    School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
  • Jiaying Liu
  • Elliott Hauser
    School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States.
  • Bo Xie
    Department of Orthodontics, The Affiliated Stomatological Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.