


TechnoBuffalo: Best Electronic Pets in 2019
Having a living, breathing pet as a member of your family that needs food, water, and playtime can be expensive and time-consuming. Electronic pets offer all the fun and absolutely none of the commitment of a four-legged friend that needs walks regularly. We’ve tested them all and here’s how our favorite electronic pets rank.

Argentum: Ageless Innovation Leadership Recognized as Change Agents in the Adult Care Market

Being Patient: Robotic Pets To The Rescue? Dementia Care Gets Innovative
Tom Stevens pets his golden retriever Jennie. The dog squints her brown eyes.
“How are you?” Tom says.
Jennie barks in response.
This encounter, documented on YouTube, seems typical except for one important detail: Jennie is 100-percent robotic. Her bark sounds from a built-in speaker and her features are the handiwork of Jim Henson’s creature shop.

Wall Street Journal: New Hopes for Dementia Care
A colleague called the other day, asking for help finding care for her brother, who was recently diagnosed with dementia. That’s a common enough request, but this colleague is a doctor, and she had already taken her brother to an elite academic medical center that did lots of tests and offered to enroll him in research studies. That wasn’t the help her brother was looking for, however, or at least not all of it. He wanted to know how long he could keep working, how he should organize his finances, and how long he could live at home as his illness progressed. His physician couldn’t answer those questions and didn’t really know who could.

WTEN: Stratton VA helps veterans with robot pets
ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — They are used in nursing homes across the nation, and now the Stratton VA issues them to veterans suffering from dementia.
What are they? They are robot cats and dogs. Each veteran gets their own companion robot, and they get to keep them forever.