A Message from Toni Lynn Davis, Executive Director

Pets Make Elders Healthier and Happier

By Toni Lynn Davis, Executive Director Green Hill Inc.

Toni Lynn Davis
Executive Director

Green Hill is thrilled to announce the arrival of our newest resident, Poppy, a five month old Chihuahua who joins our growing pet family. Pets have been included in Green Hill programming since 1992 after finding that having animals at Green Hill resulted in happier residents. The relationship between our pets and elders eases loneliness and feelings of isolation, and helps to make Green Hill more like home.

As noted by the American Animal Hospital Association, a study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society in May 1999, showed that independently living seniors that have pets tend to have better physical health and mental wellbeing than those that don’t. The study also showed that pets help seniors cope better with stressful situations. A 1997 study concluded that blood pressure rates were lower in seniors with pets.

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