Melinda Beckwith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3800466 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda Beckwith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckwith |
| SIGNATURE | BECKWITH M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reasons Given by Elderly Men and Women for Not Owning a Pet, and the Implications for Clinical Practice and Research
There is inadequate understanding about why people might not own pets. This qualitative study asked eight elderly women and men to discuss why they do not have a pet, whether pets were deemed beneficial to health, and whether they had plans for future pet ownership. Reasons for not owning a pet were Emotional or Pragmatic. Pragmatic reasons were categorized as relating to Convenience, Negative aspects of companion animals and Competing demands on…
Reasons Given by Elderly Men and Women for Not Owning a Pet, and the Implications for Clinical Practice and Research
There is inadequate understanding about why people might not own pets. This qualitative study asked eight elderly women and men to discuss why they do not have a pet, whether pets were deemed beneficial to health, and whether they had plans for future pet ownership. Reasons for not owning a pet were Emotional or Pragmatic. Pragmatic reasons were categorized as relating to Convenience, Negative aspects of companion animals and Competing demands on…
Reasons Given by Elderly Men and Women for Not Owning a Pet, and the Implications for Clinical Practice and Research
There is inadequate understanding about why people might not own pets. This qualitative study asked eight elderly women and men to discuss why they do not have a pet, whether pets were deemed beneficial to health, and whether they had plans for future pet ownership. Reasons for not owning a pet were Emotional or Pragmatic. Pragmatic reasons were categorized as relating to Convenience, Negative aspects of companion animals and Competing demands on…
Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Clinical Psychology (1 work) · Feeling (1 work) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 work) · Gerontology (1 work) · Human-Animal Interaction Studies (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Psychology (1 work) · Qualitative research (1 work) · Social Psychology (1 work)