Cross-cultural perspectives on intelligent assistive technology in dementia care: comparing Israeli and German experts' attitudes.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University of Haifa (Ref. Nr. 278/21; 01/06/2021) and by the ethics committee of the University Medical Center Gottingen (Ref. Nr. 01/08/2020). All participants signed informed consent to participate in this research. This research was conducted in accordance with the requirements of this ethics approval. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding The current study was carried out within the context of the ongoing BMBF research project “Ethical and Social Issues of Co-intelligent Monitoring and Assistive Technologies in Dementia Care (EIDEC).” This work is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), funding number: 01GP1901 (January 2020 - December 2022). Hanan AboJabel received funding from the Minerva Stiftung Post-Doctoral Fellowship (November 2020-December 2022). Silke Schicktanz received a Fellowship from the Hanse Institute of Advance Studies, Delmenhorst, Germany which allowed her to collaborate on this paper. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL."