It's guinea pig therapy for blind nursing home residents
Staff at Royal Blind’s award winning Scottish care home have discovered a new way of helping residents with dementia - by giving them the opportunity to spend time with guinea pigs.Activity sessions with Cheeky and Thomas have now become a regular therapy at Braeside House in Edinburgh, which is home to 70 blind and visually impaired older people. Sessions with the pets, which live in a pen on the roof of the home have made a huge difference to residents at the home - where the average age is 92. Linda Mason from the home’s activities team says: “We have a lot of residents with severe