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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
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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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“This differs from previously developed technologies for older adults, which rely on developers and engineers imagining the health needs of older adults [20,57] and often begins by creating a product and then searching for a problem for it to solve [40].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Law, M., Sutherland, C., Ahn, H. S., MacDonald, B. A., Peri, K., Johanson, D. L., Vajsakovic, D.-S., Kerse, N., & Broadbent, E.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Broadbent, Elizabeth
- ORCID
- Venue
- BMJ Open
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2019-09
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- e031937
- ISSN
- 2044-6055 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6773341
- OpenAlex
- W2976062348
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 26 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 6
- FWCI
- 16.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- BMJ Open (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- HighWire Press Open Archive (submittedVersion)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea) under Industrial Technology Innovation Program (No.10063300)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Geriatrics and Gerontology › Technology Use by Older Adults
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Keywords
- assistive robots, healthcare robots, mild cognitive impairment, early-stage dementia, older adults, home care, perceived usefulness, robot appearance, reminders, safety inspection, caregiver burden, elderly care
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Aged, Attitude of Health Personnel, Dementia, Expert Testimony, Female, Geriatrics, Humans, Male, Robotics, Self-Help Devices, Technology Assessment, Biomedical, Reminder Systems, Caregivers, Needs Assessment, Qualitative Research, Cognitive Dysfunction
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