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The psychosocial effects of a companion robot: a randomized controlled trial.
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Paro is a positive addition to this environment and has benefits for older people in nursing home care and may be able to address some of the unmet needs of older people that a resident animal may not, particularly relating to loneliness.About:
This article is published in Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 384 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Loneliness & Paro.read more
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Therapeutic Applications of Social Robots in Rehabilitation
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors outline some intriguing possibilities for social robots in healthcare-related applications in this chapter, some of these include treatment of social anxiety, dementia, autism spectrum disorder, depression, alzheimer's disease, anorexia nervosa, neurodevelopmental issues, cancer, diabetes and upper limb rehabilitation after stroke.
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A Systematic Review on the Efficacy of Artificial Intelligence in Geriatric Healthcare: A Critical Analysis of Current Literature
TL;DR: A systematic analysis of existing literature on role of Artificial Intelligence in geriatric patient healthcare was carried out by as discussed by the authors , which indicated that there was little consensus about the efficacy of those initiatives for older individuals.
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Practical Considerations for Deploying Robot Teleoperation in Therapy and Telehealth
TL;DR: In this article , the authors run group usability tests with therapists with no experience with robots to learn more about the challenges they face, such as the unfamiliar metaphors used for robot connection and the need to create, acquire, or share robot interaction content.
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Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report
Jerome A. Yesavage,T. L. Brink,Terence L. Rose,Owen Lum,Virginia Huang,Michael Adey,Von O. Leirer +6 more
TL;DR: A new Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) designed specifically for rating depression in the elderly was tested for reliability and validity and compared with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS) as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: A randomized controlled experiment is designed to test whether access to affordable day care (in the form of subsidies, for example) would incentivize Saudi mothers to search actively for employment and to remain employed once they are hired.
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UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3): Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure
TL;DR: The psychometric properties of the UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3) were evaluated and it was indicated that the measure was highly reliable, both in terms of internal consistency and test-retest reliability over a 1-year period.
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Statistics notes: Analysing controlled trials with baseline and follow up measurements.
TL;DR: In many randomised trials researchers measure a continuous variable at baseline and again as an outcome assessed at follow up to see whether a treatment can reduce pre-existing levels of pain, anxiety, hypertension, and the like.
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Assessing Quality of Life in Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment
TL;DR: A new measure of quality of life in dementia, the QOL-AD, is described and seems to be reliable and valid for individuals with MMSE scores greater than 10, and the reliability and validity of patient and caregiver reports of patientquality of life is examined.