Dolls as Therapy

[Polly Marie]

Dolls are helping Alzheimer's disease patients to interact better. To have dolls to care for can help people by rekindling emotions and perking their interests.
When my mother had a stroke I gave her a doll and it seemed to have helped her for awhile. [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img] Here's the Alzheimer/dolls article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5146212.stm

Polly Marie

<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ July 09, 2006 02:23 AM: Message edited by: Polly Marie ]</font>

[KimberBee]

Wow, that's really interesting! Thanks so much for posting that [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Kenshinchan]

That is fascinating! It's a limited study and I'm sure it doesn't work for everyone, but that's really neat!