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Living with the animals: animal or robotic companions for the elderly in smart homes?
Journal of medical ethics
Nov 22, 2016
Although the use of pet robots in senior living facilities and day-care centres, particularly for individuals suffering from dementia, has been intensively researched, the question of introducing pet robots into domestic settings has been relatively ...
Lounging with robots--social spaces of residents in care: A comparison trial.
Australasian journal on ageing
Dec 2, 2015
AIMS: To investigate whether robots could reduce resident sleeping and stimulate activity in the lounges of an older persons' care facility.
Benefits and problems of health-care robots in aged care settings: A comparison trial.
Australasian journal on ageing
Sep 13, 2015
AIM: This study investigated whether multiple health-care robots could have any benefits or cause any problems in an aged care facility.
Humans
New Zealand
Homes for the Aged
Interviews as Topic
Activities of Daily Living
Attitude to Computers
Communication
Nursing Homes
Time Factors
Health Services for the Aged
Aging
Social Behavior
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Quality of Life
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Age Factors
Attitude of Health Personnel
Robotics
Effect of an interactive therapeutic robotic animal on engagement, mood states, agitation and psychotropic drug use in people with dementia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial protocol.
BMJ open
Aug 12, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Apathy, agitated behaviours, loneliness and depression are common consequences of dementia. This trial aims to evaluate the effect of a robotic animal on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia in people with dementia living ...
Group sessions with Paro in a nursing home: Structure, observations and interviews.
Australasian journal on ageing
Jun 9, 2015
AIM: We recently reported that a companion robot reduced residents' loneliness in a randomised controlled trial at an aged-care facility. This report aims to provide additional, previously unpublished data about how the sessions were run, residents' ...
Physiological effects of a companion robot on blood pressure of older people in residential care facility: a pilot study.
Australasian journal on ageing
Dec 25, 2013
AIM: To investigate the effects of interacting with the companion robot, Paro, on blood pressure and heart rate of older people in a residential care facility.
Pilot Application of a Large Language Model to Identify Hospitalisation from Unstructured Electronic Health Records in Residential Aged Care Facilities.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 7, 2025
Older people in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) visit hospitals and utilise healthcare services more often than others in the community. Trends in hospitalization rates are essential for designing targeted aged care interventions to reduce p...
Using a Robot to Address the Well-Being, Social Isolation, and Loneliness of Care Home Residents via Video Calls: Qualitative Feasibility Study.
JMIR formative research
May 8, 2025
BACKGROUND: About 40,000 people are living in Norwegian care homes, where a majority are living with a dementia diagnosis. Social isolation and loneliness are common issues affecting care home residents' quality of life. Due to visitation restriction...
Extracting Symptoms of Agitation in Dementia from Free-Text Nursing Notes Using Advanced Natural Language Processing.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 25, 2024
Nursing staff record observations about older people under their care in free-text nursing notes. These notes contain older people's care needs, disease symptoms, frequency of symptom occurrence, nursing actions, etc. Therefore, it is vital to develo...
Using a Social Robot to Engage Older Adults Living in Residential Care Homes in Cognitive Training: Preliminary Results from the SHAPES Project.
Studies in health technology and informatics
Aug 23, 2023
The employment of socially assistive robotics (SAR) is increasingly being considered a credible solution to support healthcare systems in dealing with an aging society. In this contribution, we explore the experience of older adults (n = 11) living i...
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