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Can Robots Encourage Social Engagement Among Older Adults?

Apathy in older adults in long term care (LTC) settings is common, associated with morbidity and mortality, and requires extensive personnel time. Most LTC sites are limited in their ability to provide activities. We conducted a 3-month pilot study at two LTCs to determine whether a robot, with/with...

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Autores principales: Lin, Yichun, Fan, Jing, Dietrich, Mary, Beuscher, Linda, Newhouse, Paul, Sarkar, Nilanjan, Mion, Lorraine
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741147/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.624
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author Lin, Yichun
Fan, Jing
Dietrich, Mary
Beuscher, Linda
Newhouse, Paul
Sarkar, Nilanjan
Mion, Lorraine
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Fan, Jing
Dietrich, Mary
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Newhouse, Paul
Sarkar, Nilanjan
Mion, Lorraine
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description Apathy in older adults in long term care (LTC) settings is common, associated with morbidity and mortality, and requires extensive personnel time. Most LTC sites are limited in their ability to provide activities. We conducted a 3-month pilot study at two LTCs to determine whether a robot, with/without virtual reality (VR), was successful in encouraging social engagement between older LTC adults. Three robot activities were offered twice weekly for three weeks (6 sessions). Two activities with VR consisted of two book sorting games. One activity was “Simon Says” where older adults took turns as leaders. Demographics and cognitive data were collected. Videos were coded and analyzed using Noldus Observer: activity engagement as visual and verbal attention to the robot activity and social engagement as visual and verbal attention towards their partner. Participants were 2 men and 14 women, mean age 83. One dropped out because of hearing problems; one dropped out because of cognitive impairment. Fourteen, ie 7 pairs, attended all 6 sessions; ten had MCI and one had AD. Social and activity engagement varied by activity and by participant. Participants’ perceptions (7-point Likert scale) remained positive over time (6.33 (SD 0.94) to 6.52 (SD 0.61)) but decreased slightly for the repeat activities (6.19 (SD 1.01) to 5.96 (SD 1.13)). Robots hold promise in LTC as ways to engage older adults who suffer from apathy. Further work is necessary to elucidate participant- and activity-level characteristics most conducive for success and mechanisms to increase the number and variety of activities.
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spelling pubmed-77411472020-12-21 Can Robots Encourage Social Engagement Among Older Adults? Lin, Yichun Fan, Jing Dietrich, Mary Beuscher, Linda Newhouse, Paul Sarkar, Nilanjan Mion, Lorraine Innov Aging Abstracts Apathy in older adults in long term care (LTC) settings is common, associated with morbidity and mortality, and requires extensive personnel time. Most LTC sites are limited in their ability to provide activities. We conducted a 3-month pilot study at two LTCs to determine whether a robot, with/without virtual reality (VR), was successful in encouraging social engagement between older LTC adults. Three robot activities were offered twice weekly for three weeks (6 sessions). Two activities with VR consisted of two book sorting games. One activity was “Simon Says” where older adults took turns as leaders. Demographics and cognitive data were collected. Videos were coded and analyzed using Noldus Observer: activity engagement as visual and verbal attention to the robot activity and social engagement as visual and verbal attention towards their partner. Participants were 2 men and 14 women, mean age 83. One dropped out because of hearing problems; one dropped out because of cognitive impairment. Fourteen, ie 7 pairs, attended all 6 sessions; ten had MCI and one had AD. Social and activity engagement varied by activity and by participant. Participants’ perceptions (7-point Likert scale) remained positive over time (6.33 (SD 0.94) to 6.52 (SD 0.61)) but decreased slightly for the repeat activities (6.19 (SD 1.01) to 5.96 (SD 1.13)). Robots hold promise in LTC as ways to engage older adults who suffer from apathy. Further work is necessary to elucidate participant- and activity-level characteristics most conducive for success and mechanisms to increase the number and variety of activities. Oxford University Press 2020-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7741147/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.624 Text en © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Newhouse, Paul
Sarkar, Nilanjan
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Can Robots Encourage Social Engagement Among Older Adults?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7741147/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.624
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