Comparison of verbal and emotional responses of elderly people with mild/moderate dementia and those with severe dementia in responses to seal robot, PARO

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Takayanagi, Kazue ^a,b   Kirita, Takashi ^c   Shibata, Takanori ^d,e,f  

^a Seiwaen Geriatric Institute Seiwakai Foundation   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c IWATE PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mild moderate dementia; Paro; Psychological response; Seal robot; Severe dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HUMAN; ROBOTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84907926896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00257     Document Type: Article

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