Monday 15 July 2013

dogs helping people who have dementia

Slavenka posted recently about a program where dogs are training to help people who have dementia. There's a link on her post to a video showing the dogs in training, meeting their humans, and living in their new home.

It looks like a wonderful pilot program. I hope the results are good.

I love that the dogs seems to be having lots of fun in their new homes and seem enthusiastic about doing their tasks.

Here are a few more articles about these dogs, at:

HeraldScotland

Guidedogs UK

and

Dementia Dog



at

4 comments:

  1. Lassiter Chase and Benjamin16 July 2013 at 09:19

    Dogs are wonderful and smart. Its interesting hearing of how dogs could be trained when patients experience symptoms to bring medicine pouches etc.

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  2. parlance17 July 2013 at 22:10

    Lassie and Benjie, I agree that dogs are a very special species.

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  3. curator19 July 2013 at 00:20

    I know my elderly friend did very well when his dog was living, but after she had to pass on due to health problems, his mental acuity took a sharp turn downward. I really believe dogs help us in so many healthful ways.

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  4. parlance20 July 2013 at 20:51

    Curator, I think it's such a pity that in Australian homes for the elderly, mostly pets are not allowed. They could do so much to help people live full lives in their last years.

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