Robots para el cuidado de personas mayores. Taxonomía de una promesa

Population ageing is testing traditional care practices and institutions for older people in Europe. The development of technological «solutions» has been gaining ground in this field. This work focuses on the advances of geron-robotics. Robots that appear in the digital media and are designed to pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Aceros Gualdrón, Juan Carlos
Format: article
Publication Date:2018
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repository:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/138787
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/138787
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:geronrobótica
robots
personas mayores
envejecimiento
cuidado
Geron-robotics
elderly
aging
care
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Summary:Population ageing is testing traditional care practices and institutions for older people in Europe. The development of technological «solutions» has been gaining ground in this field. This work focuses on the advances of geron-robotics. Robots that appear in the digital media and are designed to provide some service to older people have been tracked and classified. They were classified according to whether they were medical, service, social, recreational, educational, rehabilitative or therapeutic potential robots. An analysis was also made of the content of the different sources found. The devices identified have recent developments. Very few of them are present in Spain. In the sample found, a great variety of robotic devices is appreciated, as well as a tendency to produce the expectation of new and better machines to come that will provide independence, well-being and company to its users.