Quality of Life within Horse Welfare Assessment Tools: Informing Decisions for Chronically Ill and Geriatric Horses
Published in 2022
A scientific review, analyzing how tools for the assessment of equine welfare, quality of life and equine perceptions of quality of life, define and operationalize these concepts. It discusses how appropriate these tools are to the assessment of quality of life as part of end-of-life decision-making for chronically-ill or elderly horses.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicator, Human-animal relationship