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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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Dementia prevention, intervention, and care
Gill Livingston,Gill Livingston,Andrew Sommerlad,Vasiliki Orgeta,Sergi G. Costafreda,Sergi G. Costafreda,Jonathan Huntley,Jonathan Huntley,David Ames,Clive Ballard,Sube Banerjee,Alistair Burns,Jiska Cohen-Mansfield,Claudia Cooper,Claudia Cooper,Nick C. Fox,Laura N. Gitlin,Robert Howard,Robert Howard,Helen C. Kales,Eric B. Larson,Eric B. Larson,Karen Ritchie,Karen Ritchie,Kenneth Rockwood,Elizabeth L Sampson,Quincy M. Samus,Lon S. Schneider,Geir Selbæk,Geir Selbæk,Linda Teri,Naaheed Mukadam +31 more
TL;DR: The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care met to consolidate the huge strides that have been made and the emerging knowledge as to what the authors should do to prevent and manage dementia.
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Scoping review on the use of socially assistive robot technology in elderly care
TL;DR: Although many positive outcomes were reported, a large proportion of the studies have methodological issues, which limit the utility of the results, and the reported value of SAR in elderly care does warrant further investigation.
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The Role of Healthcare Robots for Older People at Home: A Review
TL;DR: In this article, a review aimed to identify the areas of need that older people have, and the available solutions, in particular the robotic solutions are explored and critiqued and areas for future development identified.
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Interactions With Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves.
TL;DR: Engineers are trying to build robots that look and behave like humans and thus need comprehensive knowledge not only of technology but also of human cognition, emotion, and behavior, driving engineers to study human behavior toward other humans and toward robots.
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The Effectiveness of Social Robots for Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Studies.
TL;DR: Results from a narrative review indicated that social robot interactions could improve engagement, interaction, and stress indicators, as well as reduce loneliness and the use of medications for older adults.
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Animal-assisted therapy enhances resident social interaction and initiation in long-term care facilities.
TL;DR: Overall, during AAT residents were involved in as much or more conversation with others, including the animals, as residents in Non-Animal Therapy, and were more likely to initiate and participate in longer conversations.
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Behavioural comparison of human-animal (dog) and human-robot (AIBO) interactions.
Andrea Kerepesi,Enikő Kubinyi,Gudberg K. Jonsson,Gudberg K. Jonsson,Magnus S. Magnusson,Ádám Miklósi +5 more
TL;DR: Both children and adults terminated T-patterns more frequently when playing with AIBO than whenPlaying with the dog puppy, which suggest that the robot has a limited ability to engage in temporally structured behavioural interactions with humans.
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Effects of robot therapy for demented patients evaluated by EEG
TL;DR: The results showed that their cortical neurons activity was improved by interaction with the seal robots, especially for patients who liked the robots.
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Coping with aging: international challenges
TL;DR: Life expectancy at an advanced age has increased, and there is some evidence of lower prevalence of severe disability and a trend toward deinstitutionalization, which may result in fewer severely disabled persons.
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Quality of life in Alzheimer's disease.
Kellee Howard,Kenneth Rockwood +1 more
TL;DR: The Progressive Deterioration Scale and the Italian Quality of Life Scale were the instruments with the most promising measurement properties and should be directed both to conceptual and practical development in the assessment of QL in dementia.