Eileen Nagle sees her family in video chats and drive-by visits, but that hasn't made up for the lack of warm hugs in the nine months since the pandemic led her nursing home to shut its doors to ...

1) To demonstrate that dogs can serve as catalysts to human volunteers becoming actively involved in nursing homes and other institutional settings. Dogs are unparalleled “courage givers,” “door ...

When they were in their mid-80s, my parents wanted to be closer to their grown kids and grandchildren so they moved from their home in rural upstate New York to a retirement community outside of ...