Application of Social Robots for Symptom Control in Institutionalized Elderly Patients with Dementia

Abstract

World population is rapidly growing older and the need for long term care is rising, namely in conditions such as dementia. Complementary therapies have shown to be beneficial for symptom management in dementia, namely the animal-assisted therapy (AAT). Due to limitations for the use of animals in institutions, social robots with zoomorphic traits have been created as alternative and some models have already shown to have similar effects to AAT.