The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes.

ABSTRACT: A growing gap is emerging between the supply of and demand for professional caregivers, not least because of the ever-increasing average age of the world's population. One strategy to address this growing gap in many regions is the use of care robots. Although there have been numerous ethical debates about the use of robots in nursing and elderly care, an important question remains unexamined: how do the potential recipients of such care perceive situations with care robots compared to situations with human caregivers? Using a large-scale experimental vignette study, we investigated people's affective attitudes toward care robots. Specifically, we studied the influence of the caregiver's nature on participants' perceived comfort levels when confronted with different care scenarios in nursi

SUBMITTER: Schonmann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226445 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature