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Are you a healthcare professional looking for new ways to learn about or teach aging or end-of-life care? Join us on April 1 for a free, one-hour virtual webinar, “Online Resource Collections for Clinical Professionals and Students: Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection and the collection of Death, Dying and End of Life Resources.”

The National Bereavement Resource Guide, sponsored by New York Life and Eluna, provides a state by state listing of bereavement programs for children.  

This article provides a review of research published since 1980 on the benefits of human–companion animal interaction. Studies focusing on the benefits of pet ownership are presented first, followed by research on the benefits of interacting with companion animals that are not owned by the subject (animal-assisted activities). While most of the published studies are descriptive and have been conducted with convenience samples, a promising number of controlled studies support the health benefits of interacting with companion animals.

The familiar adage “pets are good for your health” is an interesting but largely untested theory. A new model was developed, based on pet ownership leads to better self care, to show possible associations between pet ownership with eating, exercise, nutritional status, and specific cardiovascular risk factors. Seniors aged sixty and above were solicited mainly at senior congregate meals program sites in north-central Colorado (n = 127) to participate in this cross-sectional, observational study.