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Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care

OBJECTIVES: This research is part of an international project to design and test a home-based healthcare robot to help older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. The aim was to investigate the perceived usefulness of different daily-care activities for the robot, developed...

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Autores principales: Law, Mikaela, Sutherland, Craig, Ahn, Ho Seok, MacDonald, Bruce A, Peri, Kathy, Johanson, Deborah L, Vajsakovic, Dina-Sara, Kerse, Ngaire, Broadbent, Elizabeth
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Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031937
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author Law, Mikaela
Sutherland, Craig
Ahn, Ho Seok
MacDonald, Bruce A
Peri, Kathy
Johanson, Deborah L
Vajsakovic, Dina-Sara
Kerse, Ngaire
Broadbent, Elizabeth
author_facet Law, Mikaela
Sutherland, Craig
Ahn, Ho Seok
MacDonald, Bruce A
Peri, Kathy
Johanson, Deborah L
Vajsakovic, Dina-Sara
Kerse, Ngaire
Broadbent, Elizabeth
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description OBJECTIVES: This research is part of an international project to design and test a home-based healthcare robot to help older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. The aim was to investigate the perceived usefulness of different daily-care activities for the robot, developed from previous research on needs. DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive analysis using semistructured interviews. Two studies were conducted. In the first study, participants watched videos of a prototype robot performing daily-care activities; in the second study, participants interacted with the robot itself. SETTING: Interviews were conducted at a university and a retirement village. PARTICIPANTS: In study 1, participants were nine experts in aged care and nine older adults living in an aged care facility. In study 2, participants were 10 experts in aged care. RESULTS: The themes that emerged included aspects of the robot’s interactions, potential benefits, the appearance, actions and humanness of the robot, ways to improve its functionality and technical issues. Overall, the activities were perceived as useful, especially the reminders and safety checks, with possible benefits of companionship, reassurance and reduced caregiver burden. Suggestions included personalising the robot to each individual, simplifying the language and adding more activities. Technical issues still need to be fixed. CONCLUSION: This study adds to knowledge about healthcare robots for people with MCI by developing and testing a new robot with daily-care activities including safety checks. The robot was seen to be potentially useful but needs to be tested with people with MCI.
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spelling pubmed-67733412019-10-21 Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care Law, Mikaela Sutherland, Craig Ahn, Ho Seok MacDonald, Bruce A Peri, Kathy Johanson, Deborah L Vajsakovic, Dina-Sara Kerse, Ngaire Broadbent, Elizabeth BMJ Open Geriatric Medicine OBJECTIVES: This research is part of an international project to design and test a home-based healthcare robot to help older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. The aim was to investigate the perceived usefulness of different daily-care activities for the robot, developed from previous research on needs. DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive analysis using semistructured interviews. Two studies were conducted. In the first study, participants watched videos of a prototype robot performing daily-care activities; in the second study, participants interacted with the robot itself. SETTING: Interviews were conducted at a university and a retirement village. PARTICIPANTS: In study 1, participants were nine experts in aged care and nine older adults living in an aged care facility. In study 2, participants were 10 experts in aged care. RESULTS: The themes that emerged included aspects of the robot’s interactions, potential benefits, the appearance, actions and humanness of the robot, ways to improve its functionality and technical issues. Overall, the activities were perceived as useful, especially the reminders and safety checks, with possible benefits of companionship, reassurance and reduced caregiver burden. Suggestions included personalising the robot to each individual, simplifying the language and adding more activities. Technical issues still need to be fixed. CONCLUSION: This study adds to knowledge about healthcare robots for people with MCI by developing and testing a new robot with daily-care activities including safety checks. The robot was seen to be potentially useful but needs to be tested with people with MCI. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6773341/ /pubmed/31551392 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031937 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
spellingShingle Geriatric Medicine
Law, Mikaela
Sutherland, Craig
Ahn, Ho Seok
MacDonald, Bruce A
Peri, Kathy
Johanson, Deborah L
Vajsakovic, Dina-Sara
Kerse, Ngaire
Broadbent, Elizabeth
Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title_full Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title_fullStr Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title_full_unstemmed Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title_short Developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
title_sort developing assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment and mild dementia: a qualitative study with older adults and experts in aged care
topic Geriatric Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31551392
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-031937
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