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The Impact of Telepresence Robots on Family Caregivers and Residents in Long-Term Care.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Telepresence robots can enhance social connection and support person-centered care in long-term care (LTC) homes. This study evaluates their impact in facilitating virtual visits between family caregivers and older residents in Canadian LTC homes. Te...

[How older people are learning through artificial intelligence-assisted health technologies : Cute seals and nervous fall sensors].

Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie
BACKGROUND: With the growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas of life, AI technologies are increasingly being developed for the nursing and care of older people and are intended to contribute to greater safety for older people in ...

Longitudinal changes following the introduction of socially assistive robots in nursing homes: a qualitative study with ICF framework and causal loop diagramming.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: Socially assistive robots introduced in nursing care settings have multidimensional psychological impacts on care recipients and caregivers. This study aims to explore the longitudinal changes induced by socially assistive robots, focusin...

Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing.

PloS one
BACKGROUND: Care home residents are a highly vulnerable group, but identifying care home residents in routine data is challenging. This study aimed to develop and validate Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to identify care home residents from...

Prediction of Social Engagement in Long-Term Care Homes by Sex: A Population-Based Analysis Using Machine Learning.

Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society
The objective of this study was to use population-based clinical assessment data to build and evaluate machine-learning models for predicting social engagement among female and male residents of long-term care (LTC) homes. Routine clinical assessment...

Can robots lie? A posthumanist approach to robotic animals and deceptive practices in dementia care.

Journal of aging studies
Robotic animals are designed to resemble real, living animals, but at the same time, dementia care guidelines and policies often emphasize the value of transparency in relation to robots-people should not be led to believe that robots have capacities...

Adoption of Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Robots in Long-Term Care Homes by Health Care Providers: Scoping Review.

JMIR aging
BACKGROUND: Long-term care (LTC) homes face the challenges of increasing care needs of residents and a shortage of health care providers. Literature suggests that artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled robots may solve such challenges and support perso...

Navigating artificial intelligence in care homes: Competing stakeholder views of trust and logics of care.

Social science & medicine (1982)
The COVID-19 pandemic shed light on systemic issues plaguing care (nursing) homes, from staff shortages to substandard healthcare. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, including robots and chatbots, have been proposed as solutions to such issue...

Development and External Validation of a Machine Learning-based Fall Prediction Model for Nursing Home Residents: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
OBJECTIVES: To develop and externally validate a machine learning-based fall prediction model for ambulatory nursing home residents. The focus is on predicting fall occurrences within 6 months after baseline assessment through a binary classification...

Legal and Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence for Residents in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
This article proposes a framework for examining the ethical and legal concerns for using artificial intelligence (AI) in post-acute and long-term care (PA-LTC). It argues that established frameworks on health, AI, and the law should be adapted to spe...