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Evaluation of a companion robot based on field tests with single older adults in their homes.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
The growing number of older adults places insurmountable load on family members and professional caregivers. Assistive technology with the aid of robots can present a possible solution. The goal of this article was to test a companion robot supportin...

Correlates of sleep quality in midlife and beyond: a machine learning analysis.

Sleep medicine
OBJECTIVES: In older adults, traditional metrics derived from polysomnography (PSG) are not well correlated with subjective sleep quality. Little is known about whether the association between PSG and subjective sleep quality changes with age, or whe...

Occupational Therapy Students' Perceptions of the Role of Robots in the Care for Older People Living in the Community.

Occupational therapy international
BACKGROUND: The question arises how recent developments in robotics can contribute to the care for older people. The study is part of the EU-funded ENRICHME project.

Living with the animals: animal or robotic companions for the elderly in smart homes?

Journal of medical ethics
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 ...

Situated Agents and Humans in Social Interaction for Elderly Healthcare: From Coaalas to AVICENA.

Journal of medical systems
Assistive Technologies (AT) are an application area where several Artificial Intelligence techniques and tools have been successfully applied to support elderly or impeded people on their daily activities. However, approaches to AT tend to center in ...

Artificial neural network and falls in community-dwellers: a new approach to identify the risk of recurrent falling?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
BACKGROUND: Identification of the risk of recurrent falls is complex in older adults. The aim of this study was to examine the efficiency of 3 artificial neural networks (ANNs: multilayer perceptron [MLP], modified MLP, and neuroevolution of augmenti...

The first step in using a robot in brain injury rehabilitation: patients' and health-care professionals' perspective.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: To evaluate the usability of a mobile telepresence robot (MTR) in a hospital training apartment (HTA). The MTR was manoeuvred remotely and was used for communication when assessing independent living skills, and for security monitoring of co...

Predicting cognitive function among Chinese community-dwelling older adults: A supervised machine learning approach.

Preventive medicine
OBJECTIVE: Identifying cognitive impairment early enough could support timely intervention of cognitive impairment and facilitate successful cognitive aging. We aimed to build more precise prediction models for cognitive function using less variable ...

External validation of a proprietary risk model for 1-year mortality in community-dwelling adults aged 65 years or older.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: To examine the discrimination, calibration, and algorithmic fairness of the Epic End of Life Care Index (EOL-CI).