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Archive Home > 2010 > May > 04 > For elderly, dogs can be a blessing and a curse

For elderly, dogs can be a blessing and a curse

By Mary Johnson / The Bulletin
May 4, 2010

NEW YORK — Barbara Resnick, a nurse practitioner at the Roland Park Place retirement community in Baltimore, tends to plenty of patients who have fallen. Many of the elderly residents have brittle bones, poor hearing and bad eyesight. And a lot of them own dogs.

One such person is Mary....

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