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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.
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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.

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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.

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.

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.
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