Multidisciplinary perspectives on care burden and social value of care robot

Abstract

Participants: GRS. Hong, K. Park. MJ. Kim, W.J. Choi. Care providers who take care of the growing elderly population are also getting older, so the role of caring robots in care field is highly anticipated. To maintain good care to older adults and disabled, care burden of care providers and social value of care robots must be understood. CONTENT Our symposium is designed to bring together multidisciplinary perspectives, such as nursing, physical therapy, and economics, to understand the areas of care difficulty in ADLs, social value of care robot, and care burden using both in lab and care settings. STRUCTURE Hong and her colleagues first examine the level of difficulty in activities of daily living (ADLs) care and the functional level of care recipient’s ADL in formal caregivers of older adults and disabled. Park and her colleagues investigate the social value of care robots, including publicity value for the older adults and persons with disability, through qualitative research. Kim and Shin present the effects of transfer assistive robots on care burden, burnout, and self-esteem in caregivers caring for the mobility-impaired older adults and severely disabled people. Finally, Choi and his colleagues present the biomechanical effects of a mechanical lift on the risk of low back injury during transfers from bed to wheelchair. CONCLUSION With multidisciplinary perspective, the knowledge related to care burden and social value of care robot will guide to the direction in developing the types of care robot, making policies at local and national level, furthermore sharing the ethical issues in care robots.  

Keywords: caring robots, older adults, persons with disability, social value, care burden