AIMC Topic: Geriatric Nursing

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Group activity with Paro in nursing homes: systematic investigation of behaviors in participants.

International psychogeriatrics
BACKGROUND: A variety of group activities is promoted for nursing home (NH) residents with dementia with the aim to reduce apathy and to increase engagement and social interaction. Investigating behaviors related to these outcomes could produce insig...

Could robots become authentic companions in nursing care?

Nursing philosophy : an international journal for healthcare professionals
Creating android and humanoid robots to furnish companionship in the nursing care of older people continues to attract substantial development capital and research. Some people object, though, that machines of this kind furnish human-robot interactio...

Effectiveness of Robot Paro in Intramural Psychogeriatric Care: A Multicenter Quasi-Experimental Study.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
BACKGROUND: Together with care professionals, specific psychogeriatric care applications were developed for the seal robot Paro.

Attitudes to a robot bathtub in Danish elder care: A hermeneutic interview study.

Nursing & health sciences
In Western countries, assistive technology is implemented on a large scale in elder care settings. Only a few studies have attempted to explore the different attitudes to assistive technology among various groups of users. In this study, we investiga...

Towards a Holistic Approach to Studying Human-Robot Interaction in Later Life.

The Gerontologist
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Implementation of robotics technology in eldercare depends on successful human-robot interaction (HRI). Relying on a systematic literature review, this article proposes a holistic approach to the study of such interaction.

Infection prevention and control challenges of using a therapeutic robot.

Nursing older people
This work was part of a National Institute for Health Research participatory action research and practice development study, which focused on the use of a therapeutic, robotic baby seal (PARO, for personal assistive robot) in everyday practice in a s...

Project aims to create social care robots.

Nursing older people
Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are collaborating on a programme to develop a human-shaped robot to assist in social care for older people.