RESUMO
While frailty and other multi-scale factors have to be correlated during a geriatric assessment, few prototype robots have already been developed in order to measure and provide real-time information, concerning elderly daily activities. Cognitive impairment and alterations on daily functions should be immediate recognized from caregivers, in order to be prevented and probably treated. In this chapter we recognize the necessity of artificial robots during the personal service of the elderly population, not only as a mobile laboratory-geriatrician, but mainly as a socialized digital humanoid able to develop social behavior and activate memories and emotions.
Assuntos
Atividades Cotidianas/psicologia , Cuidadores/ética , Instituição de Longa Permanência para Idosos , Casas de Saúde , Robótica/instrumentação , Idoso , Cuidadores/estatística & dados numéricos , Avaliação Geriátrica , Humanos , Robótica/ética , Robótica/métodos , Robótica/estatística & dados numéricosRESUMO
While frailty corresponds to a multisystem failure, geriatric assessment can recognize multiple pathophysiological lesions and age changes. Up to now, a few frailty indexes have been introduced, presenting definitions of psychological problems, dysregulations in nutritional intake, behavioral abnormalities, and daily functions, genetic, environmental, and cardiovascular comorbidities. The geriatric evaluation includes a vast range of health professionals; therefore, we describe a broad range of applications and frailty scales-biomarkers to investigate and formulate the relationship between frailty lesions, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment. Additionally, artificial intelligence applications and computational tools are presented, targeting a more efficacy individualized geriatric management of healthy aging.