Providing Aging Adults Social Robots’ Companionship in Home-Based Elder Care

Joint Authors

Chen, Na
Song, Jing
Li, Bin

Source

Journal of Healthcare Engineering

Issue

Vol. 2019, Issue 2019 (31 Dec. 2019), pp.1-7, 7 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2019-06-04

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

7

Main Subjects

Public Health
Medicine

Abstract EN

Population aging is increasingly serious.

The application of social robots for home-based elder care is an important way to solve this problem.

Aging adults’ demands for social robots’ companionship affect robotic designs.

This study aimed to investigate aging adults’ demands for social robots’ companionship and explored in which life situations it was appropriate to accompany aging adults by social robots.

This study involved three phases.

Phase 1 (an interview survey) collected the life situations in which aging adults lived alone at home.

Based on the results of Phase 1, Phase 2 (a questionnaire survey) investigated aging adults’ demands for companionship, whereas Phase 3 (an expert evaluation) investigated the feasibility of the robots’ companionship for aging adults.

After the three phases, this study compared aging adults’ demands for companionship with the feasibility of social robots’ companionship in each life situation.

Based on the results, the life situations of dinning and watching TV, there was a greater likelihood that the companionship that aging adults needed might be provided by social robots.

In the life situations of sleeping and short breaking, it was difficult that aging adults’ demands for companionship were fulfilled by social robots.

Implications were discussed for home-based elder care system.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Chen, Na& Song, Jing& Li, Bin. 2019. Providing Aging Adults Social Robots’ Companionship in Home-Based Elder Care. Journal of Healthcare Engineering،Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175090

Modern Language Association (MLA)

Chen, Na…[et al.]. Providing Aging Adults Social Robots’ Companionship in Home-Based Elder Care. Journal of Healthcare Engineering No. 2019 (2019), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175090

American Medical Association (AMA)

Chen, Na& Song, Jing& Li, Bin. Providing Aging Adults Social Robots’ Companionship in Home-Based Elder Care. Journal of Healthcare Engineering. 2019. Vol. 2019, no. 2019, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175090

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-1175090