id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_5mqhgdspl5awbgwbzuxrgmzvz4 E. Paul Cherniack The Benefit of Pets and Animal-Assisted Therapy to the Health of Older Individuals 2014.0 9 .pdf application/pdf 7710 623 60 The Benefit of Pets and Animal-Assisted Therapy to the Health of Older Individuals The Benefit of Pets and Animal-Assisted Therapy to Many studies utilizing dogs, cats, birds, fish, and robotic simulations of animals have tried to ascertain the health benefits of pet health suggest animals can lower blood pressure, and dog walkers partake in more physical activity. bites can occur, but how often this occurs in the context of pet ownership or animal-assisted therapy is unknown. methodological quality of pet research after decades of study, pet ownership and animal-assisted therapy are likely to continue due weekly hour and a half activity for 60 days in which they interacted with trained pet therapy dogs. [36] Controlled, unblinded, prospective 10 Pet owners reduced systolic and diastolic blood pressure in thepresence of animal when mental stressor present animal-assisted therapy on patients' anxiety, fear, and depression before ECT," Journal of ECT, vol. ./cache/work_5mqhgdspl5awbgwbzuxrgmzvz4.pdf ./txt/work_5mqhgdspl5awbgwbzuxrgmzvz4.txt