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Staging Paro: The care of making robot(s) care.

Social studies of science
Paro, a baby seal robot, is arguably the best-known care robot worldwide. Its clinical effects on people with special needs have been studied for more than twenty years by multidisciplinary teams. However, there are very few studies of Paro 'in the w...

Text mining in long-term care: Exploring the usefulness of artificial intelligence in a nursing home setting.

PloS one
OBJECTIVES: In nursing homes, narrative data are collected to evaluate quality of care as perceived by residents or their family members. This results in a large amount of textual data. However, as the volume of data increases, it becomes beyond the ...

Determinants of implementing of pet robots in nursing homes for dementia care.

BMC geriatrics
BACKGROUND: Pet robots have been employed as viable substitutes to pet therapy in nursing homes. Despite their potential to enhance the psychosocial health of residents with dementia, there is a lack of studies that have investigated determinants of ...

Explaining spatial accessibility to high-quality nursing home care in the US using machine learning.

Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology
In this study we measure and map the system-wide spatial accessibility to good quality nursing home care for all counties in the contiguous United States, and use an 'imputed post-lasso' machine learning technique to systematically examine this acces...

Automated food intake tracking requires depth-refined semantic segmentation to rectify visual-volume discordance in long-term care homes.

Scientific reports
Malnutrition is a multidomain problem affecting 54% of older adults in long-term care (LTC). Monitoring nutritional intake in LTC is laborious and subjective, limiting clinical inference capabilities. Recent advances in automatic image-based food est...

Can the Paro be my Buddy? Meaningful experiences from the perspectives of older adults.

Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)
This study aimed to explore meaningful experiences of older Taiwanese adults who had received a Paro (social robot) companion. Semi-structured qualitative interviews elicited the perspectives of 25 older adults living in a long-term care facility aft...

The importance of developing care-worker-centered robotic aides in long-term care.

Bioethics
Recent research points to the fact that new medical technological innovations are just as relevant in the context of long-term care or chronic care as they are in the context of acute care. In the spirit of the Nuffield Foundation recommendations, th...

Humanoid socially assistive robots in dementia care: a qualitative study about expectations of caregivers and dementia trainers.

Aging & mental health
OBJECTIVE: To examine the expectations of informal caregivers, nurses, and dementia trainers regarding the support of (physical and psychosocial) human needs by humanoid social assistive robots (SARs) in dementia care.