The importance of developing care‐worker‐centered robotic aides in long‐term care.
Recent research points to the fact that new medical technological innovations are just as relevant in the context of long‐term care or chronic care as they are in the context of acute care. In the spirit of the Nuffield Foundation recommendations, this paper explores the possibilities of using robot...
| Publicado en: | Bioethics Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 170 - 178 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2022
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