Community-dwelling older adults’ needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance

BACKGROUND: The rate of aging in Korea is extremely fast compared to major countries. We examined the key demands of community-dwelling older adults with regard to Connected Active Space technology, which provides tailored assistance with daily living performance through robotic services. METHODS: T...

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Autores principales: Park, Yeon-Hwan, Chang, Hee Kyung, Lee, Min Hye, Lee, Seong Hyeon
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1227-7
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author Park, Yeon-Hwan
Chang, Hee Kyung
Lee, Min Hye
Lee, Seong Hyeon
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Lee, Min Hye
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description BACKGROUND: The rate of aging in Korea is extremely fast compared to major countries. We examined the key demands of community-dwelling older adults with regard to Connected Active Space technology, which provides tailored assistance with daily living performance through robotic services. METHODS: This study is based on a mixed-method design, through a quantitative survey (n = 234) first phase, followed by a qualitative study with focus group interviews (n = 23) to explore the needs and acceptance of community-dwelling aged people concerning the application of robot technology in their daily lives. RESULTS: The scores concerning the need for and acceptance of robot services to assist daily living performance were high, at 7.2 and 7.9 out of 10 points, respectively. Further, for both needs and acceptance, timely reaction to emergency situations, early detection of emergency situations, help to locate objects, assistance with mobility, and assistance in memory recall were prioritized (in that order). In a thematic analysis of qualitative data from three focus-group interviews, a ‘mismatch between desires and functional capacity’ was the core characteristic of living as an older person and ‘being a friend and helper’ was the most desired trait of a robot service. CONCLUSION: Although most of the participants lived independently, they regularly experienced difficulties regarding buying products, transportation, using phones, and preparing meals. If appropriate assistance technology is developed, this population can maintain its independence. Thus, it is necessary to address main needs, including detecting and addressing emergency situations, locating objects, assisting mobility and memory recall, and assisting with daily living performance. New robot services that can be tailored to the functions or abilities of the elderly must be developed based on individually collected information.
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spelling pubmed-66833382019-08-09 Community-dwelling older adults’ needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance Park, Yeon-Hwan Chang, Hee Kyung Lee, Min Hye Lee, Seong Hyeon BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: The rate of aging in Korea is extremely fast compared to major countries. We examined the key demands of community-dwelling older adults with regard to Connected Active Space technology, which provides tailored assistance with daily living performance through robotic services. METHODS: This study is based on a mixed-method design, through a quantitative survey (n = 234) first phase, followed by a qualitative study with focus group interviews (n = 23) to explore the needs and acceptance of community-dwelling aged people concerning the application of robot technology in their daily lives. RESULTS: The scores concerning the need for and acceptance of robot services to assist daily living performance were high, at 7.2 and 7.9 out of 10 points, respectively. Further, for both needs and acceptance, timely reaction to emergency situations, early detection of emergency situations, help to locate objects, assistance with mobility, and assistance in memory recall were prioritized (in that order). In a thematic analysis of qualitative data from three focus-group interviews, a ‘mismatch between desires and functional capacity’ was the core characteristic of living as an older person and ‘being a friend and helper’ was the most desired trait of a robot service. CONCLUSION: Although most of the participants lived independently, they regularly experienced difficulties regarding buying products, transportation, using phones, and preparing meals. If appropriate assistance technology is developed, this population can maintain its independence. Thus, it is necessary to address main needs, including detecting and addressing emergency situations, locating objects, assisting mobility and memory recall, and assisting with daily living performance. New robot services that can be tailored to the functions or abilities of the elderly must be developed based on individually collected information. BioMed Central 2019-08-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6683338/ /pubmed/31382887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1227-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Chang, Hee Kyung
Lee, Min Hye
Lee, Seong Hyeon
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title_fullStr Community-dwelling older adults’ needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance
title_full_unstemmed Community-dwelling older adults’ needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance
title_short Community-dwelling older adults’ needs and acceptance regarding the use of robot technology to assist with daily living performance
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6683338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31382887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1227-7
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