How Pets Can Help With Wellbeing AND How We Deal With Long Term Unemployment And The Threat Of Redundancy. Today's chats with my guests will be covering a couple of topics that can affect us all at any age, but, as we get older, seem to take on more prominence in our lives­ - pets & work or the lack of it. As we're are a growing aging population; living longer, working longer and keeping more pets inside our homes than ever before, this throws up some challenges.