Social robots in Czech residential care services: Comparing the perspectives of social work students and workers in homes for the older people.
The aim of our research was to explore and compare the perspectives of students of social work and workers of homes for older people on the use of social robots in homes for older people. In our research, we used the standardized UNRAQ questionnaire (Tobis et al. 2021). We distributed a modified que...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Social Work Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 571 - 589 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2026
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