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cord-307915-mmw5s981	Hudson, Janella	Robotic Pet Use Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults	2020-08-13		.txt	text/plain	7514	374	45	Sharkey, 2012) Observations of participants interacting with robotic pets in nursing home and laboratory settings have demonstrated promise for supporting the social and emotional needs of older adults (McGlynn et al., 2017) and have yielded benefits similar to those achieved during animal-assisted therapies, including improved cardiovascular measures (Robinson et al., 2015) , reduction in loneliness (Kanamori et al., 2001) , decreased agitation, and an increase in feelings of pleasure (Libin and Cohen-Mansfield, 2004) . Given these diverse and potentially promising pathways for subjective loneliness-reducing reducing interventions, this study aims to examine the potential benefit of social robot use by community-dwelling older adults. Few studies have explored the benefit of companion pets for alleviating subjective loneliness, as well as the patterns of usage outside of a laboratory setting, among cognitively functioning, community-dwelling older adults. These study findings provide insights into the potential benefit of robotic pets for community-dwelling older adults interacting with the pets in their own homes, and demonstrate the need to explore applicability during pandemic conditions.	./cache/cord-307915-mmw5s981.txt	./txt/cord-307915-mmw5s981.txt