Reframing Assistive Robots to Promote Successful Aging

Turning Assistive Machines into Assistive Robots

For decades, the potential for automation—in particular, in the form of smart wheelchairs—to aid those with motor, or cognitive, impairments has been recognized. It is a paradox that often the more severe a person’s motor impairment, the more challenging it is for them to operate the very assistive machines which might enhance their quality of life. A primary aim of my lab is to address this co...

Controls for Assistive Robots

Successful Aging Under Religious Believes

The purpose of this article is to review investigate the relation between religion and religion belief with successful aging (mental health). Depression and anxiety is obvious among age's successful aging and religion is defined. The role of religion in successful aging is showed. The vocabulary of successful aging suggested by ballets and ballets in 1990. Airport divided two tendency of religi...

Can Spiritual Well-Being Predict Successful Aging?

Objectives: Successful aging is a positive, inner feeling and satisfaction with the past and present lives. Thus, the study was conducted to determine the predicting factors of the successful aging in a sample of Iranian elderly. Materials and methods: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytic study was conducted on 291 elderly people in Qazvin in 2018 selected using two-stage cluster samp...

Development and Validation of Successful Aging Instrument

Objectives: Successful aging is an interdisciplinary concept. Despite the great body of literature on successful aging, few studies have focused on its subjective and multidimensional measurements. Thus, the present study aimed to develop an instrument to measure self-perceived successful aging. Methods: We used a mixed method approach. The successful aging dimensions were explored through an ...