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Humanoids at the Helm of the Nursing Profession in Elderly Care: Critical Review

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Exploring Digital Resilience (ItAIS 2021)

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Older persons and carers benefit from the use of healthcare robots. Many scientists and academics have looked at using robotic technology to assist both elderly individuals and their caregivers. We provide a contemporary overview of care robotics through a survey of the literature and an in-depth analysis of published articles. We discuss what we know about the use of assistive robots in elderly care, their benefits, and potential hurdles in this research. We investigate how assisted healthcare robotics can help to shift the nursing function's unsettled resource-demand balance. We review recent research on the use of care robots from a sociotechnical viewpoint, which examines human-machine interactions and focuses on results that may or may not be beneficial to the setting. Principles of responsible autonomy and adaptation with the goal of performing tasks that are meaningful. These humanoid resources perform a variety of physical, cognitive, and social duties in order to help people live healthier lives. We concentrate on the current and future difficulties of healthcare robots, as well as how such technology might benefit healthy aging, healthcare personnel, particularly nurses, and our healthcare system as a whole. Despite the potential benefits, we conclude that adoption of care robots is still limited. We pave the road for identifying elements of adoption that may influence the adoption process using the sociotechnical lens.

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    https://www.worldometers.info/.

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    https://www.un.org/development/desa/disabilities/disability-and-ageing.html.

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    https://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/ageing/WorldPopulationAgeing2019-Highlights.pdf.

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    https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/article/22028128/79-million-homes-globally-will-have-a-robot-in-residence-by-2024.

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Dankar, M.J., Badr, N.G. (2022). Humanoids at the Helm of the Nursing Profession in Elderly Care: Critical Review. In: Cuel, R., Ponte, D., Virili, F. (eds) Exploring Digital Resilience. ItAIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 57. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10902-7_1

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