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Sheltered housing must allow pets
Anchor Trust, a housing and care charity based in Oxford, UK, proposes that old people entering residential care or sheltered housing should be allowed to keep their pets. In 1983, a law was passed in the States requiring sheltered accommodation to permit pets. Problems of noise, hygiene and extra work, which had all been prophesied, failed to materialise, according to subsequent surveys. 'For many people, life ends when their animal is refused entry to special accommodation' The UK needs a similar regulation. For as Professor Leo Bustad of Washington State University puts it: "For many people, life ends when their animal is refused entry to special accommodation. They are left staring at blank walls, waiting to die." The pet rule requires that elderly housing providers subsidized by any Federal subsidy allow pets - typically one pet. Generally a deposit is required. Research shows that people live longer, happier lives, with pets. It works well. Summarised from an article in the Guardian (May 1997) by Jill Phillip entitled 'Friends in need', monitored for the Institute by Yvonne Malik.
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