Archives: February 2008

Doggie Robots Just The Thing To Relieve Lonliness?!

I recently wrote about dog nursing homes and here is another dog story. A Saint Louis University study suggests that a robotic dog works equally as well as a real dog in alleviating loneliness and causing nursing home residents to form attachments. To test whether residents connected better with Sparky,...

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Going to the Dogs

I always said I wanted to come back as my brother-in-law’s dog. In the pecking order in his house it is my sister-in-law then a tie between their son and the dog then my brother-in-law. So here is another great reason to be a dog. When you age you too...

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When The Patient is the Doctor

ColumbiaUniversity psychiatrist Dr. Robert Klitzman has written a book entitled ‰ÛÏWhen Doctors Become Patients.’‰Ûª It‰Ûªs based on his own experience as a patient and interviews with more than 70 physicians. He discovered to no surprise that when doctors get sick, they discover cracks in the health system that they didn‰Ûªt...

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Residents Out of Wheelchairs

There is a group I just stumbled upon called the GROW Coalition. GROW stands for ‰ÛÏGetting Residents Out Of Wheelchairs.‰Û It is the goal of the GROW Coalition that residents residing in nursing homes use regular seating devices in situations where sitting in a regular chair is considered the norm...

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