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General Info - For Seniors :: Niagara Falls Humane Society 6025 Chippawa Parkway Niagara Falls, Ontario map and directions 905-356-4404 increasingly contact info Home Adoptions Search Dogs Cats Seaway Mall AC Small Animals Adopted Animals Pets in Need Success Stories Prices Preparing to Adopt Get Involved How can you help? Volunteering Foster Program Friends of NFHS Cage & Kennel Sponsorship Financial Donations Food & Supply Donations Wedding Favours Wishlist General Info For Seniors For Kids Dog Boarding Recommended Reading Easy Links Blog Dog Licence Lost and Found Stray Animals Cuteness Overload News Media Events Links Contact Us Contact Info Map & Directions For Seniors Laddy visiting Stamford Estates Many seniors remember the pets they have loved throughout their lives but don’t unchangingly have the opportunity to talk well-nigh them. When a volunteer comes in from the Niagara Falls Humane Society with their pet for visitation seniors are happy to share stories of the love and friendship they have shared with their pets. Niagara Falls Humane Society has recently started a Pet Visitation Program for senior facilities in the municipality of Niagara Falls. Seniors at various facilities including Lundy Manor, Stamford Estates, and Valley Park Lodge have enjoyed spending time with the animals and the volunteers. The volunteers and their pets really enjoy the time spent with the seniors and squint forward to every visit. Ten reasons why Pets are Good for Seniors Pets lower thoroughbred pressure. A study of health patients showed that people over 40 who own pets had lower thoroughbred pressure than people who did not have pets.Flipsidestudy showed that talking to pets decreases thoroughbred pressure. Fewer trips to the doctor. Seniors who own dogs go the doctor less than those who do not. In a study of 1,000 Medicare patients, plane the most highly stressed dog owners in the study had 21 percent fewer physician's contacts than non-dog owners. Less depression. Studies show that seniors with pets do not wilt depressed as often as those without pets. Easier to make friends. Seniors with pets meet increasingly people and like to talk well-nigh their pets. Seniors wilt increasingly active. Seniors with pets go for increasingly walks and are often increasingly zippy than those without pets. Pets are friends. Most everyone, but expressly seniors, will say that pets are their friends. Pets ease loss. Older people who suffer the loss of a spouse and own a pet are less likely to wits deterioration in health pursuit that stressful event. Pets fight loneliness. You are less likely to be lonely with a canine or feline friend around. Taking largest superintendency of themselves. Seniors take good superintendency of their pets and largest superintendency of themselves when they own a pet. Sense of security. Pets help seniors to finger that someone they trust is unchangingly around. Pets for Seniors You've probably noticed that when you pet a soft, warm cat or play fetch with a dog whose tail won't stop wagging, you relax and your heart feels a little warmer. Scientists have noticed the same thing, and they've started to explore the ramified way animals stupefy human emotions and physiology. The resulting studies have shown that owning and handling animals significantly benefits health, and not just for the young. In fact, pets may help elderly owners live longer, healthier, and increasingly enjoyable lives. A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in May of 1999 demonstrated that independently living seniors that have pets tend to have largest physical health and mental wellbeing than those that don't. They're increasingly active, cope largest with stress, and have largest overall health. A 1997 study showed that elderly pet owners had significantly lower thoroughbred pressure overall than their contemporaries without pets. In fact, an experimental residential home for the elderly tabbed the Eden Alternative, which is filled with over 100 birds, dogs, and cats and has an outside environment with rabbits and chickens, has experienced a 15 percent lower mortality rate than traditional nursing homes over the past five years. How do they do it? There are a number of explanations for exactly how pets succeed all these health benefits. First of all, pets need walking, feeding, grooming, fresh water, and fresh kitty litter, and they encourage lots of playing and petting. All of these activities require some whoopee from owners.Planeif it's just getting up to let a dog out a few times a day or brushing a cat, any worriedness can goody the cardiovascular system and help alimony joints limber and flexible. Consistently performing this kind of minor exercise can alimony pet owners worldly-wise to siphon out the normal activities of daily living. Pets may moreover aid seniors simply by providing some physical contact. Studies have shown that when people pet animals, their thoroughbred pressure, heart rate, and temperature decrease. Many benefits of pet ownership are less tangible, though. Pets are an spanking-new source of companionship, for example. They can act as a support system for older people who don't have any family or tropical friends nearby to act as a support system. The JAGS study showed that people with pets were largest worldly-wise to remain emotionally stable during crises than those without. Pets can moreover work as a buffer versus social isolation. Often the elderly have trouble leaving home, so they don't have a endangerment to see many people. Pets requite them a endangerment to interact. This can help gainsay depression, one of the most worldwide medical problems facing seniors today. The responsibility of caring for an unprepossessing may moreover requite the elderly a sense of purpose, a reason to get up in the morning. Pets moreover help seniors stick to regular routines of getting up in the morning, ownership groceries, and going outside, which help motivate them to eat and sleep regularly and well. Pets in residence Many nursing homes have taken this information to heart. For years, organizations like Pets on Wheels and Therapy Dogs International have been bringing thoroughly vaccinated, groomed, and behavior-tested animals into hospitals, hospices, and assisted living homes to requite seniors a endangerment to pet and play with them. The residents get to have some therapeutic physical contact and a fun worriedness to unravel up their day.Increasinglyrecently, some resident homes have plane begun letting animals live in the home full time. The Stanton Health Center in Stanton, Nebraska, a residential nursing home, has had dogs for its Alzheimer wing and now has an aviary and cats that live in the center's worldwide area. "The animals help patients alimony their mind off their problems," says Jean S. Uehl, the center's director of nurses. "The love the patients get from the animals is unconditional." One particular stroke patient was withdrawn and rarely smiled, until she began to play with the resident cat. The patient and the cat became closely bonded to each other, and when the cat had kittens, "they became like the patient's babies," equal to Uehl. The kittens played and slept on a tray on the resident's wheelchair and slept in a chair near her bed whenever they could. The kittens brought the resident out of her shell and she began to talk and smile. "The kittens in particular get all the residents' attention," says Uehl. "Everyone unchangingly wants to know where they're at and what they're doing." When there are kittens in the building, a number of residents stay rented all day, pursuit them, playing with them, and keeping an eye on them. Volunteering at the Niagara Falls Humane Society Many seniors enjoy spending time volunteering with the animals here at the NFHS. Special time is spent cuddling cats in our new cat room or walking dogs on our property. If you would prefer to help in flipside way we have various volunteer positions ranging from profitable with legalistic duties or events to helping with our gardens. Please contact if you would like to join our volunteer program. StaffSite content copyright © 2006 - 2018 Niagara Falls Humane Society. Reprinting or copying by permission of The Niagara Falls Humane Society only. All rights reserved. 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