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What Was (Also) at Stake When a Robot Bathtub Was Implemented in a Danish Elder Center: A Constructivist Secondary Qualitative Analysis.

Qualitative health research
Assistive technologies are often considered to be passive tools implemented in targeted processes. Our previous study of the implementation of the robot bathtub in a Danish elder center suggested that purposeful rationality was not the only issue at ...

Reactions and Engagement of Individuals with Dementia Toward Humanoid Assistive Robots: A Study Using the Pepper Robot.

Studies in health technology and informatics
While robot acceptance in different populations is well-studied, little is known about how individuals with dementia perceive and respond to humanoid assistive robots. This paper explores how individuals affected by dementia react to and engage with ...

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
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...

Assessment of Social Robotics for the Enhancement of Cognitive and Physical Functioning in Older Adults.

Studies in health technology and informatics
In the field of elder care, many countries are facing a shortage of nursing staff, which presents a significant challenge that necessitates innovative solutions to support older individuals in nursing homes. This article explores a use case involving...

Development and evaluation of a 4M taxonomy from nursing home staff text messages using a fine-tuned generative language model.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore the utilization of a fine-tuned language model to extract expressions related to the Age-Friendly Health Systems 4M Framework (What Matters, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility) from nursing home worker text mes...

Fall Detector Adapted to Nursing Home Needs through an Optical-Flow based CNN.

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Fall detection in specialized homes for the elderly is challenging. Vision-based fall detection solutions have a significant advantage over sensor-based ones as they do not instrument the resident who can suffer from mental diseases. This work is par...