Experience helps patients and care partners to live in the moment
Uploaded: Sun, Jul 18, 2021, 6:36 pm
When diagnosed with dementia, people ask, Now what? said Paula Hertel, co-founder of Connected Horse, who has worked for the last 25 years to improve senior care systems.
They might decide to go down a path of despair or they might decide to take action, she explained, and this is where Connected Horse comes in. The program brings people newly diagnosed with dementia together in nature with horses, along with their care partners, benefiting all of them. The horses want to be in relationship with us; they are not concerned with diagnoses, titles or roles, Hertel said.