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Embracing touch in dementia care: a person-centred approach to touch and relationships
- Author:
- TANNER Luke
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 256
- Place of publication:
- London
This practical guide instructs carers on how to re-evaluate their use of physical contact in dementia care to create a more effective, person-centred care system. It demonstrates the vital role touch plays in supporting relationships and wellbeing, and challenges the barriers preventing staff from using touch in meaningful ways. It demonstrates that touch and other forms of non-verbal communication are essential for 'being with' and not just 'doing to' people living with a dementia. It provides training exercises on consent and non-verbal communication, explaining how and when to use touch effectively in everyday interactions, and in all stages of dementia. (Edited publisher abstract)
Reaching towards deeper levels of communication
- Author:
- TANNER Luke
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 22(1), 2014, pp.26-28.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The author draws on his experience of working as an independent massage therapist in residential care settings and as a trainer to explain how to respond to complex and non-verbal communication with people living with dementia, particularly those with more advanced dementia. The article looks specifically at: sounds and verbalisations; repetitive bodily movements; eye contact and gaze; proximity and posture; breathing patterns; and touch. Each of these forms of communication is examined and the way in which they can help improve and deepen relationships explored.