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Smooth Service dogs for Alzheimer patients
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from the article: The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." Chris and her lovely smoothies, Zeffie & Pablo |
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The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We
unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." I understand what service dogs do and what they are for. But I don't grasp how they can help an Altzheimers patient. In order to become a team with a service animal, don't you have to know what your needs are in order to tell the animal what to do? All the Altzheimer pts I have known, don't have even remember they have the condition by the time they need help. The main problem has been memory loss related issues. How can a dog help with that. I'm not trying to critize, I'm just very curious. -sunny |
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The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We
unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." I understand what service dogs do and what they are for. But I don't grasp how they can help an Altzheimers patient. In order to become a team with a service animal, don't you have to know what your needs are in order to tell the animal what to do? All the Altzheimer pts I have known, don't have even remember they have the condition by the time they need help. The main problem has been memory loss related issues. How can a dog help with that. I'm not trying to critize, I'm just very curious. -sunny |
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The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We
unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." I understand what service dogs do and what they are for. But I don't grasp how they can help an Altzheimers patient. In order to become a team with a service animal, don't you have to know what your needs are in order to tell the animal what to do? All the Altzheimer pts I have known, don't have even remember they have the condition by the time they need help. The main problem has been memory loss related issues. How can a dog help with that. I'm not trying to critize, I'm just very curious. -sunny |
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The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We
unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." I understand what service dogs do and what they are for. But I don't grasp how they can help an Altzheimers patient. In order to become a team with a service animal, don't you have to know what your needs are in order to tell the animal what to do? All the Altzheimer pts I have known, don't have even remember they have the condition by the time they need help. The main problem has been memory loss related issues. How can a dog help with that. I'm not trying to critize, I'm just very curious. -sunny |
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"Chris Jung" wrote in message ... http://makeashorterlink.com/?K1BA21E26 from the article: The biggest challenge was finding the right dog for the task. "We unsuccessfully tried this with many types of dogs, until we got Polly, who is a collie shorthair that came to us from Finland," said Ben-Yosef. "These dogs seemed appropriate for Alzheimers because they have a calm nature, high intelligence and are very sociable with an excellent sense of smell and good spatial sense." Yay, smoothies! :-) An aside...Coda & I start our therapy dog workshop next weekend. Hopefully we'll do well, and eventually be able to visit the alzhiemer w/ dementia patients. A good friend of ours operates a care facility specifically for Alzhiemer w/ dementia patients, and they've got a live-in Golden Retreiver. The vast majority of the patients just love having a dog around to just visit with simply because the dogs don't judge them. I hope to be able to take Coda there on visits if we pass the graduation. Shelly & The Boys |
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