Used by one-third of US adults and the majority of teens, the social media platform TikTok, has emerged as a hotbed for social and political commentary. Viral TikTok content regularly amasses millions of views and hundreds of thousands of comments. The platform has become the most popular app in the last four years, creating some […]
Bioethics exists to help us think clearly about difficult medical decisions, especially when those decisions affect individuals who cannot speak for themselves. At its core, bioethics asks a set of enduring questions: Who decides? Who bears the risks? And what obligations do we have to protect the most vulnerable? These questions arise across medicine, but […]
Our research team has recently completed a pilot study with groups of older adults (N=11) and family care partners (N=9) to interact with Sava, our humanoid Pepper robot that is trained to assist with conversation and emotional support. We studied the potential effects of socially assistive robots, or carebots, for supporting persons with mild cognitive […]
My great-aunt chose medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Alberta, Canada. It was sad – all death is – but it brought us comfort knowing that her death was autonomous, compassionate and mattered. And now, legislation threatens to take that choice away from others. On March 18th, Alberta introduced Bill 18: the Safeguards for Last […]
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