Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey.

Donna Doherty; Stephen Wright; Barry Aveyard; Meg Sykes

doi:10.7748/nop.18.11.27.s23

Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey.

Donna Doherty, Stephen Wright, Barry Aveyard, Meg Sykes

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	27-30
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nursing older people
Volume	18
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.18.11.27.s23
State	Published - Dec 2006
Externally published	Yes

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