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The Best Medicine: Personal Pets and Therapy Animals in the Hospital Setting
Contributor(s):: Barchas, D., Melaragni, M., Abrahim, H., Barchas, E.
Companion animals can have a positive impact on people's health and well-being. Personal pet visitation and animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) can benefit patients' pain, blood pressure, stress, depression, and anxiety, as well as increasing mobility and socialization with staff and families....
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Animal facilitated therapy in nursing homes
Contributor(s):: Wright, P., Dribben-Gutman, B.
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Animal magnetism
Contributor(s):: Bonifazi, Wendy
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Day care and Alzheimer's disease: a weekend program in New York City
Contributor(s):: Rabinowitz, Ellen
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Developing a companion animal program
Contributor(s):: Bredenberg, Dave
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Jeff, and his companion animal peers, stir widening interest in outreach
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Pet encounters: animal-assisted therapy for frail older adults
Contributor(s):: Buettner, Linda L.
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Pet partners: teaming up for therapy and enjoyment
Contributor(s):: Buettner, Linda L.
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Pet therapy for the homebound elderly
Contributor(s):: Harris, Marilyn, Gelline, Mindy
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Power of pastimes: even seemingly mundane activities for residents can yield therapeutic results
Contributor(s):: Hegland, Anne
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STIR--Success Through Individual Recreation: working with the low-functioning resident with dementia or Alzheimer's disease
Contributor(s):: Russen-Rondinone, Tonya, DesRoberts, Anne-Marie M.
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Value of pets in geriatric practice: a program example
Contributor(s):: Ebenstein, Helene, Wortham, Jennifer
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Volunteers: the value of pet therapy
Contributor(s):: Donaldson, Marcia C.
