For millions of older adults, loneliness is an ongoing crisis, posing serious repercussions for mental and physical health. Spending time with cats and dogs can go a long way towards easing loneliness ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. As millions of older adults across the United States continue to experience loneliness and social isolation, non-profit ...

A pilot randomized trial by the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Area Agency on Aging found that a low-cost Joy ...

For a dementia patient, holding a robotic dog or cat can provide soothing moments in the life of a person whose loss of memory and other mental faculties is interfering with daily life. “When given to ...

Helen Macura has always wanted a dog, but the Prohibition-era home she has lived in since 1945 isn't safe for a potential pet. Her childhood dream of owning a dog finally came true a couple years ago, ...

Technology is often viewed as a contributor to our culture's epidemic of loneliness and isolation, but one company is trying to prove the opposite. Ageless Innovation's meowing "cats," wagging "dogs," ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WJAR/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A company is creating robotic pets to combat loneliness in veterans who cannot otherwise take care of a pet. A veterans home was gifted a shipment of dogs and ...

Rose Watkins, 67, says she doesn’t really have anyone to talk to, not since her mother passed away. Brenda Jacobs, 70, ...

BRISTOL, R.I. (WJAR) — Residents at the Rhode Island Veterans Home were recently given the gift of dogs and cats, robotic ones. Ted Fischer, the CEO and Co-Founder of Ageless Innovation LLC, said in ...

Tombot, a California-based robotics company that makes a robotic puppy that serves as a companion animal for people who cannot care for a live animal, announced that it has closed an oversubscribed $6 ...