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No playing around with robots? Ambivalent attitudes toward the use of Paro in elder care.

Nursing inquiry
This paper explores the ways in which health care professionals, family carers, and older persons expressed attitudes and opinions on using Paro, a social robot designed to stimulate patients with dementia. Thereafter, we critically evaluate existing...

Making robots matter in dementia care: Conceptualising the triadic interaction between caregiver, resident and robot animal.

Sociology of health & illness
While previous research studies have focused on either caregivers' or residents' perception and use of social robots, this article offers an empirical and theoretical examination of joint activities in triadic human-robot interaction. The symptomatol...

Care-receivers with physical disabilities' perceptions on having humanoid assistive robots as assistants: a qualitative study.

BMC health services research
BACKGROUND: People with physical disabilities due to disease or injury face barriers to their daily activities and participation in society. Many depend on formal or informal caregivers for assistance to live independently. However, future healthcare...

Socially Assistive Robots for patients with Alzheimer's Disease: A scoping review.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
BACKGROUND: The most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's Disease (AD), is challenging for both those affected as well as for their care providers, and caregivers. Socially assistive robots (SARs) offer promising supportive care to assist in the comp...

Factors associated with intention to use care robots among people with physical disabilities.

Nursing outlook
BACKGROUND: As the disabled population ages and the demand for care increases, Socially, the need for care robots is emerging but, perceptions of care robots among care recipients is unknown.

Robotic Care Equipment Improves Communication between Care Recipient and Caregiver in a Nursing Home as Revealed by Gaze Analysis: A Case Study.

International journal of environmental research and public health
The use of robotic nursing care equipment is an important option for solving the shortage of nursing care personnel, but the effects of its introduction have not been fully quantified. Hence, we aimed to verify that face-to-face care is still provide...

Machine Ethics in Care: Could a Moral Avatar Enhance the Autonomy of Care-Dependent Persons?

Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
It is a common view that artificial systems could play an important role in dealing with the shortage of caregivers due to demographic change. One argument to show that this is also in the interest of care-dependent persons is that artificial systems...

Easing the Burden on Caregivers- Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Physicians and Caregivers of Children with Cleft Lip and Palate.

The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
ObjectiveMany caregivers of children with cleft lip and palate experience a high level of anxiety throughout their child's medical and surgical care. We aim to evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to mitigate these feelings and can aid cli...

Multi-Level Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence Health Monitoring for People Living with Parkinson's Disease.

AJOB empirical bioethics
Artificial intelligence (AI) has garnered tremendous attention in health care, and many hope that AI can enhance our health system's ability to care for people with chronic and degenerative conditions, including Parkinson's Disease (PD). This paper r...

Potential Facilitators of and Barriers to Implementing the MINI Robot in Community-Based Meeting Centers for People With Dementia and Their Carers in the Netherlands and Spain: Explorative Qualitative Study.

Journal of medical Internet research
BACKGROUND: Social robots, as a form of digital health technologies, are used to support emotional, cognitive, and physical care and have shown promising outcomes in enhancing social well-being in people with dementia (PwD) by boosting emotions, soci...