Horses are big and strong, but often quiet, which may provide comfort to Alzheimer’s patients.
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Spending time with horses seems to make Alzheimer’s patients more sociable and in a better mood.
“Getting Alzheimer’s patients out in nature with horses has shown some very promising results.” Leah Badin At the University of Tours in France.
Badin and his colleagues enrolled 34 Alzheimer’s patients (30 women and four men, aged 80 to 98) from four French nursing homes and had them participate in either horse-assisted therapy or a well-established form of treatment: music therapy…
Source: www.newscientist.com
