Mansouri Nazanin, Goher Khaled, Hosseini Seyed Ebrahim
Department of Land Management and Systems, Lincoln University, Lincoln, Canterbury, 7647 New Zealand.
School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, B4 7ET UK.
Robotics Biomim. 2017;4(1):19. doi: 10.1186/s40638-017-0074-2. Epub 2017 Nov 15.
The population of ageing is growing significantly over the world, and there is an emerging demand for better healthcare services and more care centres. Innovations of Information and Communication Technology has resulted in development of various types of assistive robots to fulfil elderly's needs and independency, whilst carrying out daily routine tasks. This makes it vital to have a clear understanding of elderly's needs and expectations from assistive robots. This paper addresses current ethical issues to understand elderly's prime needs. Also, we consider other general ethics with the purpose of applying these theories to form a proper ethics framework. In the ethics framework, the ethical concerns of senior citizens will be prioritized to satisfy elderly's needs and also to diminish related expenses to healthcare services.
全球老龄化人口正在显著增长,对更好的医疗保健服务和更多护理中心的需求也在不断涌现。信息和通信技术的创新催生了各种类型的辅助机器人,以满足老年人的需求并帮助他们保持独立,同时执行日常任务。因此,清楚了解老年人对辅助机器人的需求和期望至关重要。本文探讨当前的伦理问题,以了解老年人的主要需求。此外,我们还考虑其他一般伦理原则,目的是应用这些理论形成一个适当的伦理框架。在这个伦理框架中,将优先考虑老年人的伦理关切,以满足他们的需求,并减少医疗保健服务的相关费用。