Beaming Inc Teaming With UW-Madison for "Riding in the Moment" Program

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 -- 9:03 AM

(WBAY) Beaming Inc., a non-profit that provides equine-assisted therapeutic riding teams up with UW-Madison for a first of its kind of program in Wisconsin. “Riding in the Moment” helps people living with dementia.

The ring at Beaming is busy. More than a dozen people, living with dementia, are visiting, participating in the “Riding in the Moment” program, a partnership between Beaming and UW-Madison.

According to Dr. Beth Fields with the UW-Madison Center for Aging Research and Education, “We have shown, through our research, that the Riding in the Moment program helps improve the quality of life of both people with dementia, as well as their care partners, so any family members or friends that attend the adaptive horseback riding program with them.”

Participants bond with the horses, work on grooming the animals, as well as feeding them, from rope kabobs, they build on their own.

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