Jesutofunmi A Omiye, Ilies Ghanzouri, Ivan Lopez, Fudi Wang, John Cabot, Saeed Amal, Jianqin Ye, Nicolas Gabriel Lopez, Faatihat Adebayo-Tijani, Elsie Gyang Ross
Clinical use of polygenic risk scores for detection of peripheral artery disease and cardiovascular events
PloS one
paper explores ways health care professionals family carers older persons expressed attitudes opinions using paro social robot designed stimulate patients dementia thereafter critically evaluate existing prejudicial views toward paro users provide recommendations future use using exploratory qualitative interview method recruited total 67 participants switzerland included 23 care professionals 17 family carers 27 older persons data obtained analyzed thematically study findings present general agreement paro appealing beneficial social robot tool everyone feels comfortable perceived child play would demeaning competent adults play things consequently paro appropriate persons dementia findings brought forth ethical concerns deception infantilization respecting older persons dignity idea appropriate paro user led discussions predicting future paro users meaning using social robotics nursing homes conditioned rigid interpretation adulthood playful behavior protect future selves one living dementia prejudices may useful older persons loved ones plan future care situations ensure treated accordance delineated decisions