RoboLaw Survey: Caregiver Associations

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(1) Do you use assistive robots when providing care to patients? *

All the time

Very often

Some times

I have some experience using robotic technologies

I have never used or seen robotic technologies

Other:

(2) In the affirmative case, please describe what kind of assistive l robot are you familiar with: *

(3) If you have had limited or no experience using robotic technologies, which reasons do you identify therefor? *

(Choose all applicable answers)

High costs for the purchase/operation of assistive robots

Low reliability of existing assistive robots

Lack of specific formation of the personnel in the use of assistive robots

Difficulties in explaining the patient how to use the assistive robot

Risks of liability claims based or grounded on the usage of robotic technologies

Absence of specific insurance products covering the use of assistive robots

Patients oppose the use of assistive robots

It is not acceptable caregiving to be provided by a machine instead of a human being

Other:

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(4) If you have had some experience using assistive robots, which of the following do you deem true *

(Choose all applicable answers)

They allow better results than traditional caregiving

They allow a greater degree of autonomy on the side of the patient

They allow to intervene in cases where traditional practices would not suffice

They reduce necessary rehabilitation time

They allow more patients to be treated in the same period of time

They lower overall costs for the caregiver

Other:

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(5) In what kind of treatments are assistive robots mostly employed? *

Rehabilitation

Care of the elderly

Care of the disabled

Checking/monitoring and control

Other:

(6) Would you be interested in a specific insurance product for the coverage of risks connected to the use of *

RehabilitationOption 1

Care of the elderly

Care of the disabled

Checking/monitoring and control

Other:

(7) Do you think that the employment of assistive robots will

(Choose all applicable answers)

Increase the risks of liability for the caregiver

Reduce the risks of liability for the caregiver

Nothing will reasonably change

(8) In the selection of the staff how much influence has the competence to use assistive robots? *

Essential, we would not hire someone who is not capable of using the pertaining assistive robots available in his field of expertise

Important, we would prefer among two or more potential candidates the one with specific experience with assistive robots used in his field of expertise

Relevant, we would take that skill into peculiar consideration

Indifferent, we do not use or require our practitioners to use assistive robots

Negative, we would not hire a practitioner who is willing to use robotic technologies to treat patients

(9) Which conditions do you deem most relevant when deciding whether to invest in assistive robots? *

(Choose up to 2 answers)

If producers provided sufficient post-sale assistance and training

If the legislator adopted specific regulation to shield liability claims for the use of robotic technologies in caregiving

If the legislator adopted clear cut standards detailing which cases can be treated with assistive robots

If economic incentives were provided for the adoption of said technologies

If said technologies were developed taking into account ethical issues

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(10) Using an assistive robot to provide care to a patient instead of a human being would pose an ethical problem because: *

(Choose all applicable answers)

It would deceive the patient in all cases in which the patient could not acknowledge that the caregiver treating or assisting him/her is a machine and not a human being

Increase the solitude and isolation of the patient being treated by the robot (who cannot interact with him)

Reduce the opportunities of human contact of the patient (who may be treated directly at home) and end up living in segregation

Increase the economical divide between those who can afford the use of such technologies and those who cannot

None of the above

Other:

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(11) Using an assistive robot to provide care to a patient instead of a human being would provide the following advantages *

(Choose all applicable answers)

Increase the autonomy of the patient

Protect the patient’s dignity and decency (the patient would not have to be assisted in very personal everyday tasks, such as cleaning/washing himself by a human being)

It would allow “demedicalization” of society (allowing for patients to be treated at home or remotely and allowing for their participation in society)

None of the above

Other:

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(12) Do you deem that a form of public incentive or subsidy (e.g.: tax reduction/liability exemptions/public investment or contribution) would be essential for the widespread use of assistive robots?

(13) Which aspects do you think should be improved in order to favor the diffusion of assistive robots in the care of patients? *

Training for the user should be provided by producers

Robots should be designed in a user friendly/intuitive fashion

Constant supervision should be provided at least on distance (through mechanisms which would allow an operator to remotely intervene in every moment)

They should not substitute the role of the human caregiver but simply provide additional support to the needs of the patient

Should be financed through National Healthcare Systems in order to avoid economical divide between patients of different social classes

Other:

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