UNIVERSITY OF UTAH IMAGE: A JOY FOR ALL COMPANION CAT CREDIT: PHOTO AND VIDEO ASSETS SHOULD BE CREDITED TO JOY FOR ALL COMPANION PETS/ AGELESS INNOVATION. You might think it was a typical therapy session at a long-term care facility. In a quiet room, a therapist sets down a pet carrier, brings out a cat,...
The Medical Futurist, 18 March 2022 Social companion robots are getting increasingly popular, more widely used and accepted. This might have happened anyway, but the pandemic accelerated the pace of their “deployment”. Not so surprising, many social workers have experienced that COVID restrictions took a huge toll on elderly people living alone. The loneliness of the ageing...
