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Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview

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Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies

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The world’s population is ageing and, with that, new social issues arise, especially in terms of healthcare and daily activities. Despite the preference for human professional healthcare, the new socio-economic situation and the decrease in care personnel make necessary to give support to the process of caregiving. In this context, Robotics can be considered as a solution since it can provide healthcare support, help in performing daily tasks, and/or increase the feeling of autonomony and self management. This paper is an overview of the existing robotic technologies for elderly care, analysing their benefits for the elderly.

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This work has been partially funded by Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (DPI2015-69041- R), by Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEOII/2014/028), and by Jaume-I University (P1-1B2014-52).

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Martinez-Martin, E., del Pobil, A.P. (2018). Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview. In: Costa, A., Julian, V., Novais, P. (eds) Personal Assistants: Emerging Computational Technologies. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 132. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62530-0_5

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