AIMC Topic: Frail Elderly

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Could Robots Help Older People with Age-Related Nutritional Problems? Opinions of Potential Users.

International journal of environmental research and public health
The rapid development of new technologies has recently raised interest in the use of assistive robots in the care of older people. The success or failure of robots' implementation is mediated by their acceptance by users. The aim of the study was to...

A robotic shower system : Acceptance and ethical issues.

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: Being able to maintain personal hygiene plays a crucial role for independent living in old age or when suffering from disabilities. Within the European project ICT Supported Bath Robots (I‑SUPPORT) an intelligent robotic shower system is ...

User-Oriented Evaluation of a Robotic Rollator That Provides Navigation Assistance in Frail Older Adults with and without Cognitive Impairment.

Gerontology
BACKGROUND: Navigational skills decline with age, and this decline is even more pronounced in cognitively impaired (CI) older adults. Navigation assistance is an emerging functionality of robotic rollators (RRs). The evidence on the effectiveness of ...

Inclusion of service robots in the daily lives of frail older users: A step-by-step definition procedure on users' requirements.

Archives of gerontology and geriatrics
The implications for the inclusion of robots in the daily lives of frail older adults, especially in relation to these population needs, have not been extensively studied. The "Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living" (SRS) project ha...

Comparing clinician descriptions of frailty and geriatric syndromes using electronic health records: a retrospective cohort study.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: Geriatric syndromes, including frailty, are common in older adults and associated with adverse outcomes. We compared patients described in clinical notes as "frail" to other older adults with respect to geriatric syndrome burden and healt...

Training with a balance exercise assist robot is more effective than conventional training for frail older adults.

Geriatrics & gerontology international
AIM: To examine the efficacy of postural strategy training using a balance exercise assist robot (BEAR) as compared with conventional balance training for frail older adults.

Aging, frailty and complex networks.

Biogerontology
When people age their mortality rate increases exponentially, following Gompertz's law. Even so, individuals do not die from old age. Instead, they accumulate age-related illnesses and conditions and so become increasingly vulnerable to death from va...

External validation of an AI-based preoperative frailty index using real-world data.

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
BACKGROUND: Preoperative frailty assessment is crucial for surgical risk stratification in older adults. Traditional frailty measurements are often too time-consuming and resource-intensive in preoperative settings. This study aimed to externally val...

Predicting cognitive frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a machine learning approach based on multidomain risk factors.

Scientific reports
Cognitive frailty (CF), a clinical syndrome involving both physical frailty (PF) and impaired cognition (IC), is associated with adverse health outcomes in older adults. This study aimed to identify key predictors of CF and develop a machine learning...

Update on the detection of frailty in older adults: a multicenter cohort machine learning-based study protocol.

Aging
BACKGROUND: This study aims to investigate the relationship between muscle activation variables assessed via ultrasound and the comprehensive assessment of geriatric patients, as well as to analyze ultrasound images to determine their correlation wit...