The older adult population is increasing worldwide, leading to an increased need for care providers. An insufficient number of\nprofessional caregivers will lead to a demand for robot care providers to mitigate this need. Trust is an essential element for older\nadults and robot care providers to work effectively. Trust is context dependent. Therefore, we need to understand what older adults\nwould need to trust robot care providers, in this specific home-care context.This mixed methods study explored what older adults,\nwho currently receive assistance from caregivers, perceive as supporting trust in robot care providers within four common homecare\ntasks: bathing, transferring, medication assistance, and household tasks. Older adults reported three main dimensions that\nsupport trust: professional skills, personal traits, and communication. Each of these had subthemes including those identified in\nprior human-robot trust literature such as ability, reliability, and safety. In addition, new dimensions perceived to impact trust\nemerged such as the robot�s benevolence, the material of the robot, and the companionability of the robot. The results from this\nstudy demonstrate that the older adult-robot care provider context has unique dimensions related to trust that should be considered\nwhen designing robots for home-care tasks.
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