Safe with AI at Home: Factors Impacting Older People and Occupational Therapy

Artificial Intelligence is being adopted by older people at home in the form of personal home networks. Occupational therapy services do not have explicit guidance to support their practice, and older people may be in a similar information vacuum as their needs change and the complexity of their personal networks increases. This doctoral research study used a literature informed survey, to surface insights from both cohorts. The findings highlight gaps and potential areas of common ground from which to build a new understanding and co-create the means to support safe deployments at home.