my best friend is loosing life quality

[scrutinizer666]

my girl is 15 year old mix 8.6 kilo's, active happy,simply amazing.
her eye's aint what they used to be,so is her hearing.
now when we walk she drifts away due to her wonderful curious nature, the thing is she gets lost and a bit scared, sometimes panics. now i got my eye's on her the whole time, but she cant hear me well anymore (so it's hard to direct her),and i get worried at times as well. now she's a smart one (but yes she does stupid things, i find them cute).
any ideas on how to make this stage of her life more comfortable.
btw, shes got some skeletal issues, i'm dealing with that via massage and passive movement and there was much improvement.food supplements as well...
any vet i speak to tels me "what do you think is gonna happen at her age,what are you looking for a miracle?!"
i feel this is causing damage to her on a different level, it is frustrating for her!
anyone with experienced with old age with dogs\loss of sight\hearing?
this is important she's loosing confidence as well!

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about the leash part i did try a bit over 2 weeks ago (there was a change in medication that kinda helped me,so i wanted to go to the center there's a cafe there that are friends)
i got her on the leash and a couple minutes past and she,well... "she took the big bad bit*h pose walking down the road..."
but she's more prone to bite while on a leash (stupid little kids run towards her thinking she's a toy) but once we where at the cafe she got bored, she sits on the chair besides me for a while, but then she gets restless,and very agitated.
the funny thing is i made an attempt with my "gf" to see if she can handle my baby, that was great! 8.6 kilos 15 year old dragging a 54 kilo 24 year old,my girlfriends tactless with her attempts to get a handle on my darling so she jerked the leash, 5 seconds later my darling managed to get to collar off her, and flipped the finger to my "gf". she's the best! SHE'S GOT ATTITUDE! ;-)

[ginger899]

God bless your lovely girl!
She will be disorientated as she neither hears nor sees well. She has the sense of your presence, her sense of touch, and her sense of smell left to guard her. But a lot of the time she may feel like - (you remember that kid's party game where you're blindfolded, know exactly where everyone is in the room, then you're spun round and suddenly you're not so sure, and you have to find people?...) She may feel like that.

It's great for a dog to be able to wander away from us a bit and have a sniff around. But in her case it might not be a good idea. I wonder if you kept her on a leash, she would actually feel better? She will have that sense of you as the tension on the leash, she may feel near to you that way, and not panic. A good idea might be to have one of those extending leashes (not a short one) that you can reel in whenever you get the feeling she's drifted too far away, or she looks uneasy.

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hey i did not see it there anyway
plz , some advice