Seniors at Belmont Village Lincoln Park have a special member of their community – Hendricks, their resident therapy dog.
Hendricks was raised by Brianna Bernholdt, the Activity Program Coordinator at Belmont Village Senior Living Lincoln Park, 700 W, Fullerton Ave. She introduced him as a therapy dog at just 16 weeks old, at the facility's grand opening.
Hendricks had to go through multiple types of training before he was able to work full-time with the residents – most of whom are in their 80s. "A therapy dog is obviously very different than a service dog," Bernholdt said."A therapy dog is there for comfort and just to kind of bring joy to people. So most often they're just going out to be petted, most of the time."
"A lot of the residents have had dogs throughout their lives, but they obviously cannot have one now – or they choose not to have one now," Bernholt said."So I think the bigger thing is that they're able to have a dog that they are with throughout the day, that they don't have to take care of. They get to just enjoy him… because they know the work that having a dog takes. So they are just so grateful to have him around.
"[When] he and I came here to look at this place… we walked in, [Hendricks] was sitting at the front door – like the doorman" Schmit said.
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