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 Alzheimer鈥檚 disease more sociable and improves their mood.
鈥淲e鈥檙e seeing some really promising results with bringing Alzheimer鈥檚 patients into nature with horses,鈥 says at the University of Tours in France.
Badin and her colleagues enrolled 34 people with Alzheimer鈥檚 鈥 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…
