Pet therapy is the primary goal is to provide social and sensory stimulation for the elderly and the sick, visit the companion animals provide opportunities for recalling, viewing and hearing loss
.Aging is not exclusive to age. It is a long-term process that begins, some people say, at the beginning of the life cycle itself. He said that we spend our lives growing up fourth and three fourths of life of aging.
aging in our culture is often perceived as a series of losses: if the strength, health, independence, sensory acuity, financial security can all be dismissed. Our social losses to add to this experience. Spouses of older people can go to an institution or a separate room at the age of housing. In the end, friends of older people begin to die.
Younger family members may have moved or, at least, have established separate lives and homes of their own. What age is to intensify and concentrate the losses and fall are often in the process for years and decades.
institutionalization for people over 65 years of age is mainly due to human physical and cognitive impairment. Mobility, companionship, touch and other forms of sensory stimulation can all be reduced as a result of institutional life. losses that contribute to older people experienced a form of dialogue, their bodies and attitudes that bring carry on social activities given to them in nursing homes.
Companion-animal visits to produce a variety of responses from people. Those who choose to apply to the pets and volunteers to develop an expectation or desire for further contacts with the same people and animals.
During the visits, interviews and a growing relationship between volunteers and regular citizens to bring a vast range of topics and issues. In many cases of pets that have served to bring people together fade into the background after a few sessions, and residents relating to staff and visitors who follow the animals. Questions were raised about the time, the recent holidays, the more personal ones, such as family relationships, health issues, as well as the forbidden topic of religious belief and politics.
They are also often choose to talk during the session of the bonds and the losses they experienced in humans and animals. Five visits to evoke memories of childhood and other life stages that contribute to the integrative process of reminding the elderly.
stories centering on animals is often the identity of the key features of human biological families, the quality of their marriage and relationship to their children, their histories are laced with stories of how pets are entered into their lives. One visit with a dog can do it all, amazing! Better than any drug you could give a sad or lonely person.
Since such reminding is shown to be an important tool for seniors to create a profound account of his life, the companion-animal session stimulates the pleasure of this task. Pets are symbols of a fuller experience of local residents who once enjoyed.
Many seniors consider their former pets as "family members". They seek to highlight the physical similarities between visiting animals and pets they once had to give up, as well as with family members currently caring for them. The sessions also provide opportunities for people to praise, criticize, and explore other local connections. They draw connections between human loss and pet loss, through these links are usually the issues of death and morality
.Seniors take pride in, and sometimes even take credit for the long life of animals have owned. In recalling pets from the past, at the very beginning of the interview, some patients will discuss the circumstances surrounding their death. Facts detailing their relationships usually follow. They also talked about death and burial in significant detail.
details that are accurate, graphically and emotionally is not forgotten when explaining animal losses that occurred decades ago. My mother, who died in the talks could not remember the names of the situation 50 years ago. She could not remember their first dog and my first dog. It may not seem strange, except for the fact that he suffered from memory loss and barely spoke.
Discussions of these experiences with pets, allow certain individuals to share their own grief and their fears of human losses. Some people emphasize the finiteness of certain types of attachment and loss. Describing the relationship with certain animals which were extremely close, and after whose death they were not able to get another pet.
Deceased pets are also remembered and spoken of as sources of moral value. They were praised for giving and eliciting love, for showing commitment and confidence to teach people how to take care and be kind and to provide opportunities to engage in life in a positive way.
Pets visits offer seniors the opportunity to talk, sensory stimulation, tactile warmth, and ongoing relationships with others, the effectiveness of these visits resulting partly from the symbolic meanings and fears, hopes, values and identity that people project on pets in our culture. Such reminiscences are a vital part of their reconstruction of people's personal history.
Not to mention the great feeling of joy of passing through life again and share those memories with others. When is my turn, I'll have so many memories and stories to tell, but I still feel the pain of their losses for the joy they brought with them.
They are my life filled with purpose and meaning, who could ask for anything more. This article is dedicated to Marie Therese Richard my mom knew a lot about the institution.
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