The Jewish Family Services delivered animated robotic therapy dogs to residents at Heritage Manor in Youngstown, Ohio. Their motto is just because seniors would find it hard to take care of pets, doesn’t mean they should miss out on the happiness of having one.

Lynne Azar, senior outreach coordinator for Jewish Family Services said, “What this does is it gives them something to love and to attach to, but also to communicate with in a physical sense with touch, with laughter and joy and so many other areas of communication that may not be verbal, but are non-verbal.”

Although the therapy dogs are robotic, they can still respond to touch and sounds providing emotional support to the seniors as real animals can give.

Source: McKnight’s LONG-TERM CARE NEWS

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