An overview of technology-assisted nursing care in Elderly Care
Ghimire, Ekta (2022)
2022
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022060615809
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2022060615809
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This thesis project aims to study the benefits and limitations of technology-assisted nursing care, mainly focused on robot-assisted nursing for older people. The objective of this thesis is to perform a literature review on robot-assisted nursing to find out the advantages and limitations of robot-assisted nursing in elderly health care. Dorothea Orem’s self-care model theory is the theoretical framework to guide this thesis work. The method used in this thesis work is a qualitative literature review of ten articles. The data are collected from Academic search complete (EBSCO), Pub Med, Sage, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar using inclusion and exclusion criteria.
The finding identifies that assistive technologies benefit elderly people's health in improving their physical health, psychological health, social health, and overall well-being. It was found that these technologies improved the self-care ability of elderly people and improved their quality of living. It is evident that elderly people like the company of humanoid robots in different activities like entertainment and their assistance in daily activities. On the other hand, there are also certain drawbacks with all these benefits of assistive technologies. The drawback of using assistive technologies is that they can only perform simple tasks, they are expensive for elderly people, and their processing is slow. Also, robots are found to be very interesting at the beginning, but over a certain period of time, they are less interesting.
The finding identifies that assistive technologies benefit elderly people's health in improving their physical health, psychological health, social health, and overall well-being. It was found that these technologies improved the self-care ability of elderly people and improved their quality of living. It is evident that elderly people like the company of humanoid robots in different activities like entertainment and their assistance in daily activities. On the other hand, there are also certain drawbacks with all these benefits of assistive technologies. The drawback of using assistive technologies is that they can only perform simple tasks, they are expensive for elderly people, and their processing is slow. Also, robots are found to be very interesting at the beginning, but over a certain period of time, they are less interesting.