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Facilitating Empathy for Care Recipients
The well-being of care recipients is an important issue in health care domains, while demand for higher work efficiency through data and information...
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Study on the Sustainable Development of Community Home-Based Elderly Care
The population in China gradually shows the characteristics of “aging” and “less children” making the traditional model of “raising children for...
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Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care...
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DeTrAs: deep learning-based healthcare framework for IoT-based assistance of Alzheimer patients
Healthcare 4.0 paradigm aims at realization of data-driven and patient-centric health systems wherein advanced sensors can be deployed to provide...
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Exploiting Smart Systems for Monitoring and Assisting Elderly People at Home
In a super-aging society, the government is changing the policy from conventional facility care to in-home care, where elderly people live in their...
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Decision-makers’ attitudes toward the use of care robots in welfare services
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of decision-makers toward the use of care robots in welfare services. We investigated...
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Patient Handling in a General Critical Unit: An Ergonomics Evaluation Guided by MAPHO Tool
The objective is to determine the level of exposure of workers to ergonomic risk through the application of the Handling and Assistance to...
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Research on the Demands of the Elderly in the Community Home-Based Care Model
The community home-based care service, which refers to integrating the service resources around the community to provide elderly care service in the...
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Discussion of Intelligent Electric Wheelchairs for Caregivers and Care Recipients
In order to reduce the burden on caregivers, we developed an intelligent electric wheelchair. We held workshops with caregivers, asked them regarding...
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Social Robots and Human Touch in Care: The Perceived Usefulness of Robot Assistance Among Healthcare Professionals
Touching in care work is inevitable, particularly in cases where clients depend on nurses for many activities of daily living, such as bathing,...
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Quantitative Characterization of Upper Limb Intensity and Symmetry of Use in Healthcare Workers Using Wrist-Worn Accelerometers
Due to the continuous and prolonged exposure to highly physically demanding tasks, healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk to develop low back and...
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Safety and Waterproof Design of Multi-functional Assisted Bath Robot
For the elderly who stay in bed for a long time, the bath has many benefits such as kee** the skin clean and hygienic, promoting the blood...
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Service Evaluation of Elderly Care Station and Expectations with Big Data
The problem of population aging in China has attracted wide concern, and big data is an important technological method in aging services....
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Harmonizing Emotions: An AI-Driven Sound Therapy System Design for Enhancing Mental Health of Older Adults
This research paper introduces an AI-driven sound therapy system designed to enhance the mental health of older adults, particularly those living...
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Technologies for the Rehabilitation of People Affected with CVM: A State-of-the-Art Report
The disorders that occur due to blockage or rupture of the blood vessels inside the brain are commonly termed as cerebrovascular malfunction (CVM)....
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Robots as Welfare Technologies to Reduce Falls Amongst Older Adults: An Explorative Study from Norway
This paper investigates robots as Welfare Technologies (WT), in Norway. Previous studies show that Norway follows the demographic trends around the...
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Don’t You Worry ’bout a Thing? Identification and Quantification of Relevant Privacy Parameters Within the Acceptance of AAL Technology
To combat healthcare challenges Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies offer the opportunity to support an independent life in older age....
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Virtual rehabilitation for patients with osteoporosis or other musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review
This study aims to identify effective ways to design virtual rehabilitation to obtain physical improvement (e.g. balance and gait) and support...
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Integration Analysis of Heterogeneous Data on Mind Externalization of Elderly People at Home
As the aging population around the world, figuring out the reason for changes in the health status of elderly adults at home is pressing. In our...
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Robots and Human Touch in Care: Desirable and Non-desirable Robot Assistance
Care robots are often seen to introduce a risk to human, touch based care. In this study, we analyze care workers’ opinions on robot assistance in...