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Does owning a pet protect older people against loneliness? [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.Pet ownership is thought to make a positive contribution to health, health behaviours and the general well-being of older people. More specifically pet ownership is often
A Gilbey, A Steptoe, AL Podberscek, Ann Bowling, AP Dickens, B Headey, BWJH Penninx, C Victor, C Victor, C Victor, C Victor, C Victor, CB Zhong, Christina Victor, CM Guest, CM Masi, CM Perissinotto, D Melzer, D Russel, DL Wells, E Friedmann, FV Wenz, GC Wenger, H Miltiades, IH Stanley, J Bowlby, J Flaherty, J Hippisley-Coc, J Holt-Lunstad, J McNicholas, J McNicholas, JA Udell, Jitka Pikhartova, JM Siegel, JT Cacioppo, JT Cacioppo, L Andersson, LA Peplau, LB Jennings, M Cattan, M Cattan, M Choi, M Kanamori, M Pinquart, MB Holbrook, MI Wallhagen, MM Herrald, MR Banks, MR Banks, N Savikko, NE Mahon, NM Antonacopoulos, P Demakakos, P Raina, R Hagan, RA Findlay, RA Parslow, RB Olsen, RC Thurston, RF Baumeister, RF Gillum, RS Lazarus, RS Wilson, S Borys, T Fokkema, T Tamura, TF Garrity, The European Pet Food Industry, V Burholt   +68 more
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Animals-assisted therapy: A brief review [PDF]

, 2018
In rehabilitative setting, the presence of animals can be considered as an important stimulus for verbal and social communication, and for mood regulation.
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Gallai B., Geraci D., Giugliano P., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Pennacchio S., Picciocchi E., Romano P., Ruberto M., Russo D., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +22 more
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Children’s Relationships with a Non-Vertebrate Animal: The Case of a Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica) at School

Animals, 2023
Employing living animals in educational settings is popular and may assist learning. Human-animal relationships are considered fundamental for the effects of animal-assisted interventions (AAI) on successful learning.
Katharina Hirschenhauser, Lisa Brodesser
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Emotional robots: principles and practice with PARO in Denmark, Germany and the UK [PDF]

, 2013
As societies age there will be a significant increase of those over 80 and a predicted increase in people with dementia. We know that loneliness increases with old age, and those living with dementia are at risk of social isolation.
Cook, Glenda, Gaerdt, Lone, Klein, Barbara   +2 more
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Exploring the Relationship between Persons with Hearing Loss/Deafness and Their Hearing Dogs

Animals
The reported positive outcomes of animal-assisted services have led to an emerging interest in many different aspects of human–animal interactions. The influence of an assistance animal is thought to encompass several psychosocial domains in the life of ...
Carlie J. Driscoll, Jessica Hill, Anna Torre, Nancy Pachana   +3 more
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Unleashing compassionate care: canine-assisted intervention as a promising harm reduction approach to prisonization in Canada and its relevance to forensic psychiatry

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
In recent years, there has been a global advancement in the offering of canine-assisted interventions (CAI) in prisons. However, these programs have focused primarily on the benefits to the dogs involved and not on the impact on the participants.
Maryellen Gibson, Colleen Anne Dell, Darlene Chalmers, Grace Rath, Mansfield Mela   +4 more
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An overview of the literature on assistance dogs using text mining and topic analysis

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
It is said that dogs are human's best friend. On occasion, dogs can be raised and trained to provide additional specific benefits to humans suffering from a range of physical or mental conditions, working as assistance dogs.
Emma Bassan, Alberto Mair, Marta De Santis, Massimo Bugianelli, Enrico Loretti, Alessio Capecci, Franco Mutinelli, Laura Contalbrigo   +7 more
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How to Measure Human-Dog Interaction in Dog Assisted Interventions? A Scoping Review

Animals
Human-dog interaction is the working tool through which the therapeutic, educational and recreational goals of dog-assisted interventions (DAIs) are achieved.
Marta De Santis, Lorena Filugelli, Alberto Mair, Simona Normando, Franco Mutinelli, Laura Contalbrigo   +5 more
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Current Standards and Practices Within the Therapy Dog Industry: Results of a Representative Survey of United States Therapy Dog Organizations

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Organizations that deliver animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), as well as those that train, evaluate, and register therapy dogs, have proliferated in recent decades in the United States (U.S.).
James A. Serpell, Katherine A. Kruger, Lisa M. Freeman, James A. Griffin, Zenithson Y. Ng   +4 more
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Strategies to augment volitional and reflex function may improve locomotor capacity following incomplete spinal cord injury [PDF]

, 2018
Many studies highlight the remarkable plasticity demonstrated by spinal circuits following an incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). Such plasticity can contribute to improvements in volitional motor recovery, such as walking function, although similar ...
Hornby, T. George, Kim, Hyosub E., Leech, Kristan A.   +2 more
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