Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey
Donna Doherty Senior lecturer, In adult nursing within the Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Blackheath
Stephen Wright Reverend and chairman, Of the Sacred Space Foundation
Barry Aveyard Lecturer in nursing, In the community, ageing and rehabilitation department at University of Sheffield's School of Nursing and Midwifery
Meg Sykes Day services manager, At Kendray Hospital practice development unit, Barnsley Primary Care Trust
Touch is considered a core aspect of care provision and therapeutic relationships. Therapeutic touch allows nurses to facilitate healing and forge therapeutic relationships through touch or non-touch and maintain channels of communication often lost in dementia as the disease progresses. This article reports the findings of a research project to Examine the effectiveness of therapeutic touch in dementia care.
Nursing Older People.
18, 11, 27-30.
doi: 10.7748/nop.18.11.27.s23
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