Ageing population brings with it a lot of new challenges, which include the care of older people and their further socialization. One possible solution lays in social robotics. For this thesis we look at it through the eyes of health and social workers because they will be the ones to enforce, introduce, control, and support it. The aim of this thesis is to research what kinds of social robots are in use in elder care, which factors influence the acceptance of social robotics by formal caregivers, and which ethical issues they raised. We used the scoping study method and looked through several bibliographic bases with search strings that included social robotics, health and social workers or formal caregivers, long-term elder care and views, impressions, attitudes or acceptance. We limited the search by language to Slovenian or English and between years 2010 and 2022. We included 25 papers in which both socially interactive and even more often socially assistive robots were used. Acceptance of robots by formal caregivers is dependent on technological factors, factors around the usefulness of the robot, effects of social robotics on the elderly, personal factors regarding professional caregivers and social influence. Ethical issues that were raised were related to topics of autonomy, privacy, using social robots with elderly with cognitive problems and general robotization of long-term care of older people.
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