• ‘It’s almost magical’: how robotic pets are helping UK care home residents

    ‘It’s almost magical’: how robotic pets are helping UK care home residents
    Animatronic cats that purr and dogs that wag their tails have helped staff at Oak Manor care home in Bedfordshire to avoid medicating some residents with dementia“You’re bloody lovely ain’t you,” said Frances Barrett, as the robotic cat she was stroking flicked its ears and whiskers one lunchtime this week at the Oak Manor care home in Bedfordshire.The resident was one of several who live with dementia playing with the home’s small menagerie of animatronic animals t

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