How Pet Animals Can Help In Therapy And Health

Pet animals are just like islands of sanity in this world of insanity and a friendship with ones pet animal like dog, cat, fish or turtle is most reliable, intimate, faithful and non-competitive in good and bad times. So pet animals have been used to give animal assisted activities and animal assisted therapy to promote health and well being. Yes, a pet animal forms a unique bond with man and doctors, psychologists and other health care professionals have tapped into the area for its potential therapeutic value.

The use of this unique bond between man and pet animals have been used in nursing homes and other assisted living facilities. Yes, animal assisted activities involving casual, unplanned, and spontaneous interactions between pet animals and man helps remove the loneliness of senior citizens. They are able to feel more happy and motivated after such interactions. In addition they are found to be better at communicating with their friends. 

Senior citizens are able to forget their suffering, disease and pain. In addition senior citizens are able to think better and there is an improvement in their memory. Besides it also brings back memories of their childhood and young days when they may have had a pet and enjoyed time with them. Yes, who doesn’t cherish good memories of the past and a change of routine to break the monotony and feel pepped up. 

'Animal assisted therapy' is used for rehabilitation and in the case of terminally ill patients. This method is more goals oriented and depends on the individual’s progress and goal of treatment. Pet dogs, trained for the purpose, do animal assisted therapy. Animal assisted therapy with various other therapies has helped patients suffering from physical and psychological conditions of various types.  It has helped in case of patients going through the trauma of head injury.

These therapies have been both stimulating and comforting to terminally ill patients. Yes animal assisted therapy fulfills the need of social interaction and has been instrumental in alleviating symptoms of pain, anxiety, and depression. Pet animals used for therapy has helped to lower blood pressure, lessen stress when the pet was just put for about fifteen minutes on the patient’s lap or stood wagging it’s tail by the patient’s bedside. These talks a lot of pet animals, which continue their selfless service and provide more therapeutic value than a human being can and will.

To conclude, pet owners do feel proud that your pet animal can assist in animal assisted activities and animal assisted therapy to bring happiness to aging senior citizens by removing their loneliness, stimulating their memory and bringing improvement and alleviation of pain in terminally ill people and promoting calm, well-being and health to all.