Deusdad Blanca
Medical Anthropology Research Centre, Department Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Sep 25;15:1436273. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1436273. eCollection 2024.
The aging of the world's population due to accelerating demographic shift on all continents is causing increasing pressure worldwide, giving rise to a "crisis of care" or "care wave." The increase in longevity is resulting in an increase in chronic diseases (such as dementia), an increase in care needs to perform the activities of daily living, and situations of isolation and profound loneliness among older adults. These circumstances are opening the debate on the need to use technology, such as robots, to improve the wellbeing of older adults and their caregivers. The aim of this paper is to address the ethical questions in using social and companion robots for people with dementia, such as concerning consent, the replacement of human care, the potential for increased dependency, and the burden on caregivers. Involving older adults and other stakeholders offers the potential to pursue robotics to support older people while also ensuring a strong ethical commitment. The study is a review of high-impact articles on the topic of the use of social and companion robots with older people with dementia.
由于各大洲人口结构加速转变导致全球人口老龄化，这在全球范围内造成了越来越大的压力，引发了一场“护理危机”或“护理浪潮”。寿命的延长导致慢性病（如痴呆症）增加、日常生活活动的护理需求增加，以及老年人出现孤独和极度寂寞的情况。这些情况引发了关于是否需要使用机器人等技术来改善老年人及其护理人员福祉的讨论。本文旨在探讨将社交和陪伴机器人用于痴呆症患者时的伦理问题，例如有关同意、替代人类护理、增加依赖的可能性以及对护理人员的负担等问题。让老年人和其他利益相关者参与进来，有可能在追求机器人技术以支持老年人的同时，确保做出强有力的伦理承诺。这项研究是对关于将社交和陪伴机器人用于患有痴呆症的老年人这一主题的高影响力文章的综述。
