Published on in Vol 25 (2023)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/44125, first published .
Potential Facilitators of and Barriers to Implementing the MINI Robot in Community-Based Meeting Centers for People With Dementia and Their Carers in the Netherlands and Spain: Explorative Qualitative Study

Potential Facilitators of and Barriers to Implementing the MINI Robot in Community-Based Meeting Centers for People With Dementia and Their Carers in the Netherlands and Spain: Explorative Qualitative Study

Potential Facilitators of and Barriers to Implementing the MINI Robot in Community-Based Meeting Centers for People With Dementia and Their Carers in the Netherlands and Spain: Explorative Qualitative Study

Aysan Mahmoudi Asl   1 , MSc ;   Suzanne Kouters   2 , MSc ;   Álvaro Castro-González   3 , PhD ;   Henriëtte Van der Roest   4 , PhD ;   Manuel Franco Martin   1, 5 , MD ;   Rose-Marie Dröes   6 , Prof Dr

1 Psycho-Sciences Research Group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Salamanca, Salamanca University, Salamanca, Spain

2 Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behaviour and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

3 Robotics Lab, Department of System Engineering and Automation, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

4 Department on Aging, Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos Institute), Utrecht, Netherlands

5 Psychiatry and Mental Health Department, Zamora Hospital, Zamora, Spain

6 Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Corresponding Author:

  • Aysan Mahmoudi Asl, MSc
  • Psycho-Sciences Research Group of the Biomedical Research Institute of Salamanca
  • Salamanca University
  • Paseo de San Vicente, 58-182
  • Salamanca
  • Spain
  • Phone: 34 923 09 04 70
  • Email: aysanmd@usal.es