An exciting update about Nancy’s nonprofit, Connected Horse.

Nancy co-founded Connected Horse in 2015, a nonprofit devoted to equine guided assistive learning programs for older adults. 

Connected Horse provides equine-assisted workshops that inspire connection and engagement in the lives of all those impacted by a dementia diagnosis or neurocognitive disorders.

This generation likes purpose. They’re hard working. They are still working, many of them. And they don’t want to just sit around. This is a different group, so we have to have engaging programs that make them feel that they’re giving back, that they are useful to society, that they are making a difference.

Nancy Schier Anzelmo and Paula Hertel give us a behind-the-scenes look at the preparation and research it took to launch their nonprofit, Connected Horse. “We both own horses,” Hertel says. “We researched the benefits of equine-assisted activities in other populations and saw similarities in the needs of people living with dementia and their care partners.”