Frailty at Older Adults Clinical Trial
Official title:
Supporting Health Care Professionals With a Social Robot in an Integrated Care Pathway: A Randomized Controlled Trial
This study evaluates the effectiveness of integrated care pathway steps supported by social robots. Half of the participants will receive regular care, while for the other half a social robot dialogue will be included as part of the pathway step.
There is a worldwide increasing shortage of adequately trained healthcare personnel, leading
to the challenge for society to prevent a future "lack of care". At the same time the number
of people requiring healthcare is expanding rapidly, amongst others due to the growing
percentage of older adults in the population. New means of supporting the available
healthcare professionals are therefore urgently required.
Modern healthcare is often implemented through "integrated care pathways". Certain steps in
these pathways involve dialogues with patients. Speaking social robots are increasingly being
advertised as supportive for healthcare professionals and may handle certain structured
dialogue types, such as questionnaires. Based on previous positive preclinical experiences
with social robots interviewing community-dwelling older subjects, the researchers want to
investigate the implementation of a social robot in an integrated care pathway in the
outpatient clinic.
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