"Hey! Is my husband here?" demands an ancient woman in a wheelchair as I'm searching for the activity coordinator who will orient me as the first animal-assisted therapist in the Golden View Nursing Home.
An edition of Where the Trail Grows Faint
(2005)
Where the Trail Grows Faint
A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
by Lynne Hugo
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Ostensibly a book about therapy dogs, this thoughtful work also looks at the shortcomings of nursing-home life. Dog lovers will enjoy the antics of Hugo's chocolate Lab, who is a great icebreaker at a home, and will learn that dogs needn't be perfectly behaved to be good in their role (far from it, in this case). Readers also learn that residents too often can be neglected by family, even those who live nearby, and that the effects of this neglect are huge in already severely circumscribed lives. Teens volunteering, or contemplating it, at nursing homes and hospitals, as well as social-studies students, will get a great deal out of this sympathetic volume and will be much more understanding and able to help residents/patients in practical but small ways.
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Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
2009, University of Nebraska Press
in English
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Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team (River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize)
May 1, 2005, University of Nebraska Press
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in English
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""Hey! Is my husband here?" demands an ancient woman in a wheelchair as I'm searching for the activity coordinator who will orient me as the first animal-assisted therapist in the Golden View Nursing Home."
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