First dementia dogs start work with owners.
The dogs have been trained to help people with early-stage dementia and can remind them to take their medicine and help them get out and about.
They were the brainchild of a group of students from Glasgow School of Art.
The students suggested that dogs could be trained to help people with dementia in the same way that guide dogs help people who are blind.
With the support of Alzheimer Scotland, Dogs for the Disabled and Guide Dogs Scotland, two dogs underwent 18 months of training.
Golden retriever Oscar and Labrador Kaspa have been working with their new owners for four months, after 18 months of training.
They have been taught to respond to alarms and bring medicine pouches, to nudge their owners to read a reminder and to encourage them to get out of bed in the morning.
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and glad to provide encouraging news.
Times are weird when people are around to read it. It's late for me.
Cross post to GD now or wait for morning. There are a few here with recent loses. I know they will want to see this.
Thank you ellen, my dads death breaks my heart.
Thanks, Hekate.
I cry.
can be there for so many others who suffer this horrible fate.
many to you, sheshe2
