Commentary on: Ren, LH., Wong, KLY., Wong, J., Kleiss, S., Berndt, A., Mann, J., Hussein, A., Hu, G., Wong, L., Khong, R., Fu, J., Ahmed, N., Nolte, J., Hung, L. (2024) Working with a robot in hospital and long-term care homes: staff experience BMC Nursing 23:317 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-01983-0
Implications for practice and research When implementing welfare technology, staff education needs to consider relational and cultural factors, including positivity in leadership, teamwork and staff-family relationships to facilitate use. As technological possibilities are increasing, while older populations are growing and working populations are decreasing, user-based research in implementation of welfare technology is urgently needed.
The interest of using digital technologies, robots etc in supporting old age care is growing, due to the fact that the technological possibilities are also increasing. The fact that older populations are growing while working populations are decreasing in...