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    Walk With Me
    Walk With Me
    Walk With Me
    Ebook53 pages37 minutes

    Walk With Me

    By Pet Partners

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    You already know that walking is good for you. The health benefits include increased cardiovascular fitness, reduced risk of heart disease and stroke, stronger bones, and increased muscle strength. Did you also know people who walk with an animal are more likely to meet physical activity recommendations? Imagine the impact you could have by inviting those without pets to walk with you and your therapy animal.

    Pet Partners' Therapy Animal Program represents the best that the field of animal-assisted interventions has to offer. Volunteers in the Therapy Animal Program interact with a wide variety of clients including veterans with PTSD, seniors living with Alzheimer's, students with literacy challenges, patients in recovery, people with intellectual disabilities, and those approaching end of life. We believe that the human-animal bond is a mutually beneficial relationship that improves the physical, social, and emotional lives of those we serve. We are motivated by connection, compassion, and a commitment to sharing this meaningful bond with everyone who can benefit from time spent with an animal.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPet Partners
    Release dateFeb 28, 2018
    ISBN9780999877227
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      Walk With Me - Pet Partners

      Why Walk With Me™?

      Could the Saturday morning walk that you already take with your registered therapy animal be turned into an opportunity to get other people in your community walking? We believe it could. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action, together with a body of research that supports the benefits of walking with animals, makes it clear that walking is yet another way that Pet Partners therapy animal teams can enhance human health and well-being through animal-assisted interventions (AAI).

      Research has shown that, among older adults, dog walkers are more likely to meet physical activity recommendations, and that they have faster usual and rapid walking speeds than dog owners who don’t walk their dogs[i]. What if walking with a Pet Partners team could help an older neighbor who doesn’t have an animal of his or her own stay healthy longer?

      In addition, researchers have been interested in the potential positive impact on children, and in the potential for positive outcomes for overweight or at-risk children and their families. Studies have also shown a correlation between dog ownership and adolescent physical activity[ii] and have concluded that, within dog-owning families, the promotion of walking and active play with a dog can be a strategy for increasing children’s physical activity[iii]. But what if a family doesn’t own a dog? Could Pet Partners give children an opportunity for increased physical activity, helping them establish healthy lifelong habits?

      Furthermore, evidence shows that the presence of a dog during a walk creates or enhances the perception of safety[iv]. By offering people in your community an opportunity to walk safely with a handler and his or her dog, could Pet Partners help make them interested in becoming more active?

      Researchers have often investigated the role of animals as social support and social lubricant. As part of these investigations, they have also been interested in exploring what dog walking can contribute through social interaction, formation of friendships, social support, civic engagement and visible community presence, and how these contributions benefit not only the dog walkers but the broader community. Could Walk With Me™ give you a way to strengthen your community through relationship building?

      And don’t forget the benefits to your team! We already know that, as a volunteer, you care about and have a strong commitment to your community. As a responsible pet owner, you also have a concern for and commitment to the health and well-being of your animal. Animals can benefit as much as humans from regular physical activity. And of course, by participating, you, the handler, will get out and walking too.

      As a Pet Partners volunteer you have a wide variety of ways that you can make a difference in your community. Based on the Call to Action document that the office of U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released in 2015, Pet Partners has created the Pet Partners Walk With Me™ program as a special initiative. Walk With Me™ is yet another way for you to share the benefits of AAI — in this case, with people that you might not reach through your visits in more traditional settings.

      While you participate in Walk With Me™ visits, all Pet

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