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Teemu Rantanen is a prominent researcher specializing in care robotics, digital health technology, and elderly care workforce development. His work sits at a critical intersection of gerontechnology and healthcare management, focusing particularly on how care personnel perceive, adopt, and adapt to robotic technologies in home care and elderly care settings. Rantanen's most significant contributions center on understanding staff attitudes toward care robots across different cultural and national contexts. His highly cited 2018 comparative study between Finland and Japan (108 citations) broke new ground by revealing cross-cultural differences in care workers' fears and acceptance of robotics, while his parallel Finnish home care survey (92 citations) provided essential insights into the workforce readiness challenges facing healthcare systems. A particularly notable methodological contribution is his development and validation of the Robot Use Self-Efficacy in Healthcare Work (RUSH) scale (81 citations), offering researchers a standardized instrument for measuring care workers' confidence in using robotic technologies. His longitudinal perspective, examining how project-based interventions can shift staff attitudes over time, adds practical value to his primarily survey-driven body of work. Rantanen's research has proven especially relevant as aging populations across Finland and globally demand innovative care solutions, making his findings indispensable for healthcare policymakers and care facility leaders navigating the robotics transition.
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- 7ROBOTICS IN HOMECARE – THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS THROUGH A CASE STUDY3 citations · 2017