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Pet Therapy, also known as Animal Assisted Therapy is the use of trained animals and their handlers to achieve specific physical, cognitive, social and emotional goals with people and patients requiring care. Pet ownership or visiting therapeutic animals can have a range of benefits.
Pets may motivate and encourage the elderly to stay healthy and exercise and give the elderly a feeling of being needed. Motor skills can be improved or learned with the assistance of an animal trained for pet therapy and the creative inclusion of an animal in the life or therapy of a person with an illness or disability can make a major difference in their comfort, progress and recovery.
For more information in relation to Animal Assisted Therapy in Australia you can visit The Delta Society of Australia, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the development of interaction between people and companion animals.
