The behavioural effect of short-term cognitive and physical intervention therapies in old dogs.

ABSTRACT: Efforts to counteract age-related decline have resulted in the emergence of various interventions. However, everyday benefits are rarely reported in elderly people. Dogs provide an excellent model for studying aging and interventions due to their similarities to humans. Our aim was to investigate whether a combined physical and cognitive intervention (most effective in humans) could enhance the performance of pet dogs and lead to far transfer effects (improvement in not just the trained specific task). We examined the impact of three-month-long intervention therapies (cognitive, physical, combined) on the cognitive performance and behaviour of old, healthy dogs (N = 72; aged 7.68-14.54 years) using a 12-subtest behavioural test battery. We did not find the combined intervention group outpe

SUBMITTER: Bognar Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11493909 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature