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1 Worldwide there are around 50 million worldwide living with dementia. The number of people with dementia worldwide is increasing, while the number of related healthcare workers is going down. One solution to this would be using social robots to take over some tasks performed typically by human caretakers. Social robots are machines that aim to solve a particular role by following social behaviour. In prior wok they have been used for recreational activities, reminders, and encouraging exercise. 
2 \\Culture is a significant factor since the different regions have different attitudes towards robots. due to sociocultural factors. Countries like Japan or the Netherlands have a high acceptance rate, while the US and Italy are much less acceptance. Making changing to the robot depending on the country or population is an important factor in ensuring that it is seen as a legitimate tool for elderly care. Another important factor is the exposure to prior advances technologies like smart devices, computers or robots. This means that researchers are required to give more directions or that participants may not participate at all. Notably will this type of acceptance increase over time since the future elderly will have had much more exposure to technology than the current generation. At the moment can this limitation be overcome by performing longer studies, which research has shown leads to higher acceptance rate from users. Interestingly is the usability of a robot that does groep conversation much lower than that of a robots focusing on daily activities or elderly needs. 
3 \\Important future directions are user acceptance, perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. An example of this would regional accents for robots, informal word choice or friendlier voices. Utilizing a focus group would be an effective strategy to gauge acceptance of the robots by the patients. 
4 \\Since dementia is a progressive illness the load of the caretakers increases over time. Easing the burden on the caretaker is therefore a vital field of research for social robots. It is therefore important to get the opinion of feedback of caretakers, especially since they are responsible for the wellbeing and the safety of the people with dementia. This ensures that the design, development and implementation of dementia care robots is done in a way that has actual use for the people in the field and reduces the chance for unmet expectations, missed requirements and overpromises. Autonomy is an important factor in this since they, on average, relieved more of the burden on the caretakers. However this is counteracted by their lesser acceptance by patients, who feel more comfortable if family member or caretaker was in control. Autonomous robots hence did not decrease someone's level of loneliness to a similar level as a controlled robot does. Therefore, the level of autonomy is an important consideration while developing a social robot.
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7 Daniel Woods, Fengpei Yuan, Ying-Ling Jao, and Xiaopeng Zhao. 2021. Social Robots for Older Adults with Dementia: A Narrative Review on Challenges & Future Directions. In Social Robotics: 13th International Conference, ICSR 2021, Singapore, Singapore, November 10–13, 2021, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 411–420. [[https:~~/~~/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_35>>https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_35]]
8 \\M. R. Lima et al., "Conversational Affective Social Robots for Ageing and Dementia Support," in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 1378-1397, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCDS.2021.3115228.
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10 M. Schrum, C. H. Park and A. Howard, "Humanoid Therapy Robot for Encouraging Exercise in Dementia Patients," 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Daegu, Korea (South), 2019, pp. 564-565, doi: 10.1109/HRI.2019.8673155.
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12 \\Lizzy Sinnema and Maryam Alimardani. 2019. The Attitude of Elderly and Young Adults Towards a Humanoid Robot as a Facilitator for Social Interaction. In Social Robotics: 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 24–33. https:~/~/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_3
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14 \\Hendrix, J., Feng, Y., Van Otterdijk, M., & Barakova, E. I. (2019). Adding a Context: Will It Influence Human-Robot Interaction of People Living with Dementia? //Lecture Notes in Computer Science//. https:~/~/doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_46