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Seniors and Pets: Health Benefits and Challenges. In sickness and in health, pets play a huge role in their owners’ lives.
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Seniors and Pets: Health Benefits and Challenges. In sickness and in health, pets play a huge role in their owners’ lives.
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Seniors and Pets: Health Benefits and Challenges
In sickness and in health, pets play a huge role in their owners’ lives.
By Lisa Esposito, Staff Writer |Oct. 4, 2017, at 9:00 a.m.
A buddy to share a morsel of food with, a walking companion, a mischievous friend and a profound comfort. Older adults reap great benefit from caring for dogs, cats or other household animals. Pets may provide a talisman against loneliness, isolation and inactivity. Study after study show the good pets can do.
https://health.usnews.com/wellness/articles/2017-10-04/seniors-and-pets-health-benefits-and-challenges
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Re: Seniors and Pets: Health Benefits and Challenges. In sickness and in health, pets play a huge role in their owners’ lives.
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My father told me about this perhaps 25 years ago. It seems we spend a lot of wasted resources relearning things already known.
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Re: Seniors and Pets: Health Benefits and Challenges. In sickness and in health, pets play a huge role in their owners’ lives.
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Now I have a place to point the next time the husband complains that Atticus and the cats complicate our lives. Usually, I just tell him the alternative is a divorce. I need my pets.
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