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Socially Assistive Robots for Dementia Care: Exploring Caregiver Perceptions of Use Cases and Acceptance.
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- Socially focused intelligent assistive technologies for caregiving for homebound older adults with cognitive impairment: a scoping review.Innovation in aging · 2025Review
- Ethics, design, and implementation criteria of digital assistive technologies for people with dementia from a multiple stakeholder perspective: a qualitative study.BMC medical ethics · 2024Article
- Cognitive Exercise for Persons with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Using a Social Robot.IEEE transactions on robotics : a publication of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society · 2023Article
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Abstract
As the older population increases, the number of persons living with dementia (PWD) will increase as well. Yet, at the same time, there are fewer health care professionals per care recipient. To address the rising demand on healthcare professionals and informal care partners of PWD, socially assistive robots (SARs) can potentially facilitate care provision. It is crucial to understand the divergent tasks of these two caregiver groups so that the SAR's intervention can meet each group's needs. This qualitative study investigated and compared both caregiver groups' acceptance of a SAR. Six use cases involving a SAR (NAO, SoftBank) were demonstrated to both caregiver groups (N=20 persons). Both groups expressed willingness to adopt such technology and found that it could be useful in dementia care. However, participants' perceptions varied by task. Results indicate that healthcare professionals focused more on the
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