Simone Anna Felding
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Witten/Herdecke University
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216
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About
Simone Anna Felding is a researcher whose work sits at the intersection of gerontology, dementia care, and assistive technology, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies can address the psychosocial needs of older adults. Her scholarship has made significant contributions to understanding both the promise and the practical challenges of deploying social robots and other assistive technologies in long-term care settings. Her most cited work, a 2021 scoping review on barriers and facilitators to social robot implementation (122 citations), has become an essential reference for researchers and practitioners navigating this rapidly evolving field. Alongside this, her complementary review on technology's role in combating loneliness among people with dementia (45 citations) has helped shape how care providers think about psychosocial intervention. More recently, Felding has brought nuanced theoretical frameworks to bear on robot acceptance in nursing homes and conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Danish care facilities, offering rare qualitative depth to a field often dominated by quantitative approaches. Her growing body of work, spanning surveys, systematic reviews, and immersive fieldwork, positions her as a distinctive and increasingly influential voice in dementia care innovation research.
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