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.

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Doherty D, Wright S, Aveyard B, Sykes M.

Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Blackheath.

Posted: 09/24/2007



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