Therapy Dogs International
... therapy dogs and their volunteer handlers for the purpose of visiting nursing homes, hospitals, other institutions and wherever else ...
site: http://www.tdi-dog.org/

Dog Play: Therapy Dogs Article - Resident Dogs In Nursing Homes
... forms of pet visits in nursing homes, such as: resident dogs, volunteers visiting with dogs from local animal shelters, and volunteers ...
site: http://www.dog-play.com/resident.html

Dog-Play: Joining a Therapy Dog Group
... to nursing homes, hospices, hospitals and schools in South Florida through registered therapy dogs. All dog/handler teams are members of ...
site: http://www.dog-play.com/join.html

Therapy Dogs. Helping People Nation Wide.
... goal of Therapy Dogs Inc. to help dog owners use their dogs for therapy work in various places such as nursing homes, hospitals and ...
site: http://www.therapydogs.com/

HEALTH: Therapy dogs spread joy at nursing homes, hospitals, more
HEALTH: Therapy dogs spread joy at nursing homes, hospitals, more ... about past visits to hospitals and nursing homes.
site: http://www.herald-dispatch.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060202/LIFE/602020340/1004

Sonia Collander, American Greetings employee, takes dogs to area ...
Sonia Collander, American Greetings employee, takes dogs to area nursing homes to visit with elderly residents (in CLENIX) ...
site: http://www-catalog.cpl.org/CLENIX/ACD-1369

Service and Therapy Dogs
Therapy Dogs for the purpose of giving loving and empathic support in nursing homes, hospitals and other facilities where Emotional Service ...
site: http://www.cofc.edu/~huntc/service.html

Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal
... and an increase in patients' positive interactions to staff when dogs were brought to a nursing home. ... four cats, two small dogs, and ...
site: http://www.psyeta.org/sa/sa1.1/perelle.html

Dogs' pet project: Visiting nursing home residents
Two dogs visit nursing homes through Pets on Wheels program...
site: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/0730petpeople0730.html

Delta Society
A national registrar. Training and screening for people who want to visit hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities with their animals.
site: http://www.deltasociety.org/

The healing power of pets; nursing homes, hospitals, and even prisons are going to the dogs … and other animals … to improve the health and
THE HEALING POWER OF PETS Much has been written in the past few years about the bond between people and their pets. Pets help keep us young: They decrease loneliness, and they give us the opportu... (Continue Reading)

'Catholic dogs' bring cheer to elderly, ill
Sue Clark's pet ministry started serendipitously in an Oshkosh, Wis., restaurant five years ago. Clark, a traveling sales representative at the time, ...... (Continue Reading)

Can mechanical dogs be seniors' best friends? - Robotics
Researchers are placing robotic dogs in the homes of isolated senior citizens to determine whether the mechanical substitutes, like pets, can improve ...... (Continue Reading)

The dogs of Banglamung - Banglamung Wildlife Breeding Center in Thailand also provides shelter for stray dogs
Standing on his hind legs, Stripe, a 250-pound moon bear with yellowish eyes, is looking Gary Galbreath in the face through the partially closed window ...... (Continue Reading)

Humanizing Prisons with Animals: A Closer Look at "Cell Dogs" and Horse Programs in Correctional Institutions
Abstract If correctional education aims to transform individuals and bring about change, we need to consider the whole person who comes with human needs, ...... (Continue Reading)

The famous NYCNC lunchtime barbecues
Everyone eats lunch--so why not enhance general morale by focusing on a group lunchtime activity that involves different disciplines, increases residents' ...... (Continue Reading)

Notes from an Eden Alternative pioneer - nursing home management program
Asbury Care Center is the 104-bed nursing home component of a CCRC known as the Methodist Home in Charlotte, NC. The nursing facility is striving to ...... (Continue Reading)

Administrators: transitioning from nursing homes to assisted living
It's different, it's rewarding - IT'S NOT EASIER Today, more than ever before, seniors have a variety of health care options - and those options translate ...... (Continue Reading)

Welcome to Eden - nursing home care; Eden Alternative
They're injecting nursing homes with life - in all its forms Being the sole physician and medical director of an 80-bed nursing home in rural New York ...... (Continue Reading)

They call it puppy love: this award-winning CCRC set out to sponsor a guide dog—and ended up sponsoring four
The concept of using animals as therapeutic aids for residents has been around for many years. The benefits of residents playing with puppies, kittens, ...... (Continue Reading)