Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists
Apr 1, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Animal-assisted therapy is gaining popularity as part of therapeutic activities for older adults in many long-term care facilities. However, concerns about dog bites, allergic responses to pets, disease, and insufficient available resou...
Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Dec 31, 2013
PURPOSE: An electromyography-driven robot system integrated with neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) was developed to investigate its effectiveness on post-stroke rehabilitation.
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.
Journal of diabetes science and technology
Jan 1, 2011
BACKGROUND: As America's baby boom generation reaches retirement, the number of elders, and, in turn, the number of lay individuals who support them, will continue to increase. With the important services caregivers provide, it is critical that we re...
MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing
May 13, 2025
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this project was to implement a remote fetal surveillance unit with increased vigilance and timelier responses to electronic fetal monitor tracings to improve neonatal outcomes and increase safety.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
May 5, 2025
There is an urgent need to develop tools to enable older adults to live healthy, independent lives for as long as possible. To address this need, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Artificial Intelligence and Technology Collaboratories (AITCs) for...
BACKGROUND: Porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) is the most common subtype of porphyria and results from a deficiency of the enzyme uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase. Even after successful treatment, patients can be left with significant scarring, and there i...
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to develop and validate a machine learning model for identifying individuals within the nursing population experiencing severe subjective cognitive decline (SCD) during the menopause transition, along with their associated ...
BACKGROUND: A real-time deep learning system was developed to identify the extrahepatic bile ducts during indocyanine green fluorescence-guided laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
The journal of pathology. Clinical research
Mar 1, 2025
This work aimed to evaluate both the usefulness and user acceptance of five gradient-based explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods in the use case of a prostate carcinoma clinical decision support system environment. In addition, we aimed t...