July 18, 2024
McKnight's Long-Term Care News
While robots have been used in dementia care to provide interactive activities, most existing robot activities require some human facilitation.
This has been attributed to residents’ unfamiliarity with new things, challenges sustaining attention to activities and confusion about a given activity.
Since human-facilitated robot activity is often impractical in resource-constrained nursing facilities, the authors of a new study in the July issue of JAMDA developed and implemented a novel robot control logic they termed the “Adam Program.” It acts as the brains for a programmable human-like robot product called Alph Mini, both collectively referred to as “Adam.”
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