Özet:

The elderly, especially those living in institutions, tend to have many health limitations, such as reduced vision, hearing and locomotion, which necessarily implies the risk of loneliness. An exploratory and cross-sectional study was carried out. Data collection took place between February and May 2018, in 5 residential structures for the elderly in the north of Portugal. The study included 130 elderly people, 68,5% female and 31,5% male, with an average age of 82,43 years and an average stay in the institution of 4,5 years and 57,7% are widowers. 43,1% of the elderly would see a robot that interacted with them as interesting and very interesting. The data found in this study shows that it is essential to provide the elderly with new forms of social relationships with the help of new technologies in order to avoid loneliness and to contribute to a better quality of life.

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