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Animal-Assisted Therapy for People With Dementia

Sponsor: University of Aberdeen

Summary

This study is a qualitative anthropological research that explores the effects of Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) for people with moderate and severe dementia living in a care facility. In particular, the study explores the effects that AAT can have on people with moderate and later stages of dementia, living in a care facility, on: Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD); mood (depression); quality of life; activity (physical). The AAT effects on people with moderate and later stages of dementia will be compared with effects that other activities provided in the care facility where participants live, may have on the same participants. This study does not test hypotheses.

Official title: Bonding at the Very End Emerging Personhood During End-of-life and Palliative Care Through Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT)

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