Pet Therapy for Alzheimer's Patients – The Health Benefits That Pets Can Provide Senior Citizens
At each of our Applewood Our House locations, the inclusion of pets into the daily lives of our residents, is very important to us. We have a house dog at each location and some of our caregiver staff also bring their dogs to work with them. Pets can really help our residents who suffer from Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is an incurable form of dementia. It vastly decreases the mental…