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ConsumerAffairs is an American customer review and consumer news platform that provides information for purchasing decisions around major life changes or milestones. [5] The company's business-facing division provides SaaS that allows brands to manage and analyze review data to improve their products and customer service.
Consumer Reports (CR), formerly Consumers Union (CU), is an American nonprofit consumer organization dedicated to independent product testing, investigative journalism, consumer-oriented research, public education, and consumer advocacy.
Therapy Dogs’ Willingness to Participate in Animal-Assisted Interventions Focus of New Project The Human Animal Bond Research Institute and Pet Partners have awarded a grant to study how ...
Animal-assisted therapy is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. [4] [5] It falls under the realm of animal-assisted intervention, which encompasses any intervention in the studio that includes an animal in a therapeutic context such as emotional support animals, service animals trained to assist with daily activities, and animal ...
A service animal is an animal that has been trained to assist a disabled person. The animal needs to be individually trained to do tasks that directly relate to the handler's disability, which goes beyond the ordinary training that a pet receives [3] [4] and the non-individualized training that a therapy dog receives.
Today, Cleo Krejci is a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. But in 2022, she was a caregiver in a struggling assisted living facility in Wisconsin. Here's what she saw.
Colleen Anne Dell is a Canadian public sociologist, animal-assisted intervention practitioner, and academic.She is a Professor and Centennial Enhancement Chair in One Health & Wellness in the Department of Sociology and Associate in the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan.
Assisted living facilities, initially established to support older Americans in their later years, have become increasingly focused on maximizing financial gains at the expense of their residents' well-being. Over the period from 2004 to 2021, the median annual cost of assisted living has outpaced inflation by 31%, increasing to $54,000 per ...