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Use of Socially Assistive Robots for Long Term Care Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment and Apathy
NCT05178992 · Vanderbilt University · Updated 23 Oct 2026
- What is being tested
- Socially Assistive Robot Activity
- For
- Alzheimer Disease
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. No drug phase (a device or procedure study).
- Who can join
- Ages 60 years and older. About 142 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- United States
- When
- Starts or started 7 Feb 2023, ends 31 Jan 2026. Registered 5 Jan 2022.
- Results
- Posted on the registry on 23 Oct 2026.
In the researchers' words
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the impact of a socially assistive robot system on reducing apathy among cognitively impaired older adults residing in long term care facilities. Earlier phases of this project demonstrated the feasibility and acceptability of the robotic system. First, investigators will improve the social robotic interaction architecture through additional software development, enhance its versatility, and make it easy for non-experts to run. Second, 188 participants will be randomized to either usual activity programs at the long term care facility, or the usual activity programs plus the robotic activities. Researchers will examine the effect on apathy and also plan on examining underlying individual and facility factors that influence the impact of the robotic activities.
Sites
- Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, Tennessee, United States