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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 |
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What a great idea!
Best wishes, -- Polonca & Soncek "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 |
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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 |
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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 ... : 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 |
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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 |
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Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:00:09 +1100, "Alan Erskine" wrote: "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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBP7ruwDMYPge5L34aEQKl0QCcDvQp5mBY9S94vtlFzpglj9 5N2WsAn0ic UvUjKRMMArzI7jDE9xHbrUiS =pjWq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- John F. Eldredge -- PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria |
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