Horses are big and strong, but often quiet, which may comfort people with Alzheimer’s disease Halfpoint/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Spending time with horses seems to make people with Alzheimerās disease more sociable and improves their mood.
āWeāre seeing some really promising results with bringing Alzheimerās patients into nature with horses,ā says at the University of Tours in France.
Badin and her colleagues enrolled 34 people with Alzheimerās ā 30 women and four men, aged between 80 and 98, living in four French nursing homes – to participate in either equine-assisted therapy or music therapy, an established…
