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19 19  //A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of elderly or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, old people's homes, assisted living facilities care homes, rest homes, convalescent homes, or convalescent care.//
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21 -- [[Source>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursing_home]]
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23 23  This robot is not for patients who live indefinitely in care facilities but for people who come regularly but still live at home.
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25 25  == General environment ==
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27 -In these care facilities, there are usually multiple elderly people who battle with different diseases or just simply feel alone at home and would like to socialize with people more in their age group. There are however people, who are not safe to be left alone at home, meaning they can't do their daily activities safely, or in case of an emergency, they couldn't call for help.
25 +Care facilities could be social places where elderly people talk to each other and socialize while being supervised by professional caregivers.
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29 -Care facilities could be social places where elderly people talk to each other and socialize while being supervised by professional caregivers. There are people who have the mental capability to do their daily tasks but are bored at home (usually because of the passing of their spouse).
27 +Our robot choice allows the patients to pick up the robot and bring it with themselves to these facilities.
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31 -Our robot choice allows the patients to pick up the robot and bring it with them to these facilities because it's relatively easy. However it's not recommended.
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33 33  == Social Contact ==
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35 35  Under this circumstance, patients will have communications with other people as well as the caregivers, and patient's main focus will not be placed on the robot brought, so we assume the robot to enter a supervised mode and try not disturb the conversations.