Next Best to the Real Thing

I found an interesting website and wanted to share with you guys. It's a
robotic cat, developed for use in nursing homes with patients of dimensia.
Pretty neat idea, I thought.

http://www.robotherapy.org/maxdiagram.htm

Click on "cat" for the story.

Sherry

What a great idea!
Best wishes,
--
Polonca & Soncek

"Sherry " wrote in message
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I found an interesting website and wanted to share with you guys. It's a
robotic cat, developed for use in nursing homes with patients of dimensia.
Pretty neat idea, I thought.

http://www.robotherapy.org/maxdiagram.htm

Click on "cat" for the story.

Sherry

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itty (Sherry ) wrote:


I found an interesting website and wanted to share with you guys. It's
a
robotic cat, developed for use in nursing homes with patients of dimensia.
Pretty neat idea, I thought.

http://www.robotherapy.org/maxdiagram.htm

We had 2 live cats at the Nursing home I lived in.
Suz
Iron Chef Macmoosette
Thank Heavens There's Only One
=^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^=

Chocolate heals all wounds.

We had 2 live cats at the Nursing home I lived in.
Suz
Iron Chef Macmoosette

That is so cool. I wrote a feature about a nursing home here that has dogs, but
no cats. :-(
I wish they all would have resident pets. Even if they had to hire a part-time
staff person just to care for them, it would be so worth it, it benefits the
patients so much.

Sherry

No doubt it would not strike anyone but me as odd and ironic that the State
of FL, backed up by the US Agriculture Dept., is now engaging in trapping
and exterminating feral cats in the FL keys (ostensibly to "save" 2 kinds of
endangered rodent species, which may not be in peril because of feral cats!)
and at the same time research (who knows, maybe backed or supported by some
other US gov't. entity) is being perfected for artificial cats, hoping to
tweak the nonactive frontal lobes of the residents of "God's waiting rooms"
all over the country........this is some kind of statement, but I'm fearful
of the conclusion. Bast have mercy on the helpless, who cannot speak for
themselves, and I *don't* mean the Alzheimers patients.



"Sherry " wrote in message
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: We had 2 live cats at the Nursing home I lived in.
: Suz
: Iron Chef Macmoosette
:
: That is so cool. I wrote a feature about a nursing home here that has
dogs, but
: no cats. :-(
: I wish they all would have resident pets. Even if they had to hire a
part-time
: staff person just to care for them, it would be so worth it, it benefits
the
: patients so much.
:
: Sherry

No doubt it would not strike anyone but me as odd and ironic that the State
of FL, backed up by the US Agriculture Dept., is now engaging in trapping
and exterminating feral cats in the FL keys (ostensibly to "save" 2 kinds of
endangered rodent species, which may not be in peril because of feral cats!)
and at the same time research (who knows, maybe backed or supported by some
other US gov't. entity) is being perfected for artificial cats, hoping to
tweak the nonactive frontal lobes of the residents of "God's waiting rooms"
all over the country........this is some kind of statement, but I'm fearful
of the conclusion. Bast have mercy on the helpless, who cannot speak for
themselves, and I *don't* mean the Alzheimers patients.

Wow. That *is* ironic. I just think it's a good idea because when my mom was
in a nursing home, some of the ladies had dolls. These people had lost most of
their body functions and abilities, but the *one* thing a human never loses is
the desire and need to love and to receive love. They thought they were real
babies, and I used to make new clothes for them, you should see how tickled
they would get. Anyway, a pet lover with alzheimer's isn't going to know it
isn't a real cat anyway, and nobody has to clean up after it and there's no
issues about cleanliness from the non-pet lovers. Not as good as the real thing
for sure though.

Sherry

In article ,
itty (Sherry ) wrote:



We had 2 live cats at the Nursing home I lived in.
Suz
Iron Chef Macmoosette

That is so cool. I wrote a feature about a nursing home here that has dogs,
but
no cats. :-(
I wish they all would have resident pets. Even if they had to hire a part-time
staff person just to care for them, it would be so worth it, it benefits
the
patients so much.

Sherry


One of them was a large Calico/Maine Coon that would "assume" tummy rub
position whenever someone with a walker would go by.
Suz
Iron Chef Macmoosette
Thank Heavens There's Only One
=^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^=

Chocolate heals all wounds.

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On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:00:09 +1100, "Alan Erskine"
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"Sherry " wrote in message
...
I found an interesting website and wanted to share with you guys.
It's a robotic cat, developed for use in nursing homes with
patients of dimensia. Pretty neat idea, I thought.

http://www.robotherapy.org/maxdiagram.htm

Click on "cat" for the story.

Sherry

"Remembers is name and acknowledges its name when called." Doesn't
sound like any cat I've ever known. ;-) I recall Karen posted an
image to abpa of a 99 year old woman who is having a nap on the back
of a one-year-old cat.

Are you sure that you didn't mean to say that the cat was resting on
the woman, rather than the other way around?

The main safety issue that I would see to combining cats and senior
citizens is the risk of tripping someone if the cat tries the usual
twine-about-the-ankles routine. Old folks who fall tend to break
bones, not just get bruises.

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