AIMC Topic: Geriatrics

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Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care.

BMJ open
OBJECTIVES: This research is part of an international project to design and test a home-based healthcare robot to help older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. The aim was to investigate the perceived usefulness of differe...

Development and validation of a pragmatic natural language processing approach to identifying falls in older adults in the emergency department.

BMC medical informatics and decision making
BACKGROUND: Falls among older adults are both a common reason for presentation to the emergency department, and a major source of morbidity and mortality. It is critical to identify fall patients quickly and reliably during, and immediately after, em...

A New Remote Health-Care System Based on Moving Robot Intended for the Elderly at Home.

Journal of healthcare engineering
Nowadays, due to the growing need for remote care and the constantly increasing popularity of mobile devices, a large amount of mobile applications for remote care support has been developed. Although mobile phones are very suitable for young people,...

Robots and people with dementia: Unintended consequences and moral hazard.

Nursing ethics
The use of social robots in elder care is entering the mainstream as robots become more sophisticated and populations age. While there are many potential benefits to the use of social robots in care for the older people, there are ethical challenges ...

The effectiveness of various robotic technologies in assisting older adults.

Health informatics journal
There is concern about the expanding size of the ageing population and burgeoning care costs for older adults. Robotic technology could assist older adults. In this study, the effectiveness of the robotic technologies is evaluated. A systematic liter...

Acceptability and usability of a telepresence robot for geriatric primary care: A pilot.

Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
The dual challenge of increasing numbers of older adults and overall increases in those with some form of insurance is driving the need to develop and evaluate novel methods of primary care delivery such as telehealth. The goal of this study was to e...

Towards a future robotic home environment: a survey.

Gerontology
PURPOSE: Demographic change has resulted in an increase of elderly people, while at the same time the number of active working people is falling. In the future, there will be less caretaking, which is necessary to support the aging population. In ord...

Addressing the Black Box of AI-A Model and Research Agenda on the Co-constitution of Aging and Artificial Intelligence.

The Gerontologist
Algorithmic technologies and (large) data infrastructures, often referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI), have received increasing attention from gerontological research in the last decade. Although there is much literature that dissects and expl...