Japanese Nursing Home Recruits Babies to Keep Elderly Company

[Axtremus]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epzp37/japanese-nursing-home-recruits-babies-to-keep-elderly-company

The article may have sensationalized the news a bit. But the underlying concept is still interesting: a nursing home is deliberately and systematically arranging for babies to visit the home after recognizing that the presence of babies tend to make the residents happy. The nursing home has even spec’ed out what sort of babies they want: age between zero and three years, cannot speak Japanese well.

Not sure if similar concept will fly in the USA. Japan is so far ahead of other developed countries when it comes to an aging population.

[George K]

Dogs are probably cheaper, better-behaved and over all cleaner.

Quieter too...

[Axtremus]

@George-K said in Japanese Nursing Home Recruits Babies to Keep Elderly Company:

Dogs are probably cheaper, better-behaved and over all cleaner.

Pets in nursing homes: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-pets-nursing-homes/pets-in-nursing-homes-bring-both-benefits-and-risks-idUSKBN1HJ2BS

[LuFins Dad]

@George-K said in Japanese Nursing Home Recruits Babies to Keep Elderly Company:

Dogs are probably cheaper, better-behaved and over all cleaner.

Quieter too...

They are also less likely to get off your lawn, boomer…

[George K]

When D4 was in the hospital recovering from a bowel obstruction, this happened:

[Jolly]

Worked with a nurse that had two shelties she used as hospital therapy dogs.

The sheltie grin is ubiquitous in the breed. You can't help but smile, when a sheltie smiles at you.