The Most Important 10 Benefits in Our day to day life with PETS
While the Primary Benefits to animals are obvious-to place them in Loving Homes and keep them from being Destroyed-the Benefits to elderly Persons are Ten-Fold (Versus Non-Pet Owners).
1) Pets Lower Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate.
2) 21% Fewer Visits to the Doctor.
3) Less Depression.
4) Easier to make Friends (Enhanced Social Opportunities.
5) Seniors become MORE ACTIVE.
6) Pets offers AFFECTION and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
7) Pets ease loss of a Loved One.
8) Pets Fight LONELINESS.
9) Seniors take batter CARE of Themselves.
10) Sense of Security.
In 1980, A Clinical Research Project at Brooklyn College, New York, studied Heart-Disease Patients after their discharge from the Hospital. Dr. Erika Friedmann, Ph.D.. Professor of Health and Nutrition Science at the College, tracked each survivor, studying their medical histories, lifestyles,families,relationships-every documentable detail. Co-researcher Dr. Aaron Katcher, M.D., reported.
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"The Presence of a PET was the Strongest Social Predictors of Survival. Not just for Lonely or Depressed People, but everyone-independent of marital status and access to Social Support from Human Beings."
While the Primary Benefits to animals are obvious-to place them in Loving Homes and keep them from being Destroyed-the Benefits to elderly Persons are Ten-Fold (Versus Non-Pet Owners).
2) 21% Fewer Visits to the Doctor.
3) Less Depression.
4) Easier to make Friends (Enhanced Social Opportunities.
5) Seniors become MORE ACTIVE.
6) Pets offers AFFECTION and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
7) Pets ease loss of a Loved One.
8) Pets Fight LONELINESS.
9) Seniors take batter CARE of Themselves.
10) Sense of Security.
In 1980, A Clinical Research Project at Brooklyn College, New York, studied Heart-Disease Patients after their discharge from the Hospital. Dr. Erika Friedmann, Ph.D.. Professor of Health and Nutrition Science at the College, tracked each survivor, studying their medical histories, lifestyles,families,relationships-every documentable detail. Co-researcher Dr. Aaron Katcher, M.D., reported.
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"The Presence of a PET was the Strongest Social Predictors of Survival. Not just for Lonely or Depressed People, but everyone-independent of marital status and access to Social Support from Human Beings."