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Embracing touch in dementia care : a person-centred approach to touch and relationships / Luke J. Tanner ; foreword by Danuta Lipinska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanner, Luke J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alzheimer Disease--therapy.
- Therapeutic Touch--psychology.
- Alzheimer Disease--psychology.
- Quality of Life--psychology.
- Residential Facilities.
- Aged.
- Touch--Therapeutic use.
- Touch.
- Dementia.
- Dementia--Alternative treatment.
- Dementia--Patients--Care.
- Dementia--Treatment.
- Medical Subjects:
- Alzheimer Disease--therapy.
- Therapeutic Touch--psychology.
- Alzheimer Disease--psychology.
- Quality of Life--psychology.
- Residential Facilities.
- Aged.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Meaningful touch is an essential part of truly person-centred dementia care, yet its value is often viewed as secondary to its perceived risks. This book restores trust in the power of touch, demonstrating the vital role it plays in supporting personhood, relationships and wellbeing, and challenging the barriers preventing staff from using touch effectively. Discussing a range of different types of touch, Luke Tanner places touch in the context of consent and safeguarding to produce a realistic guide to maximising the benefits of touch in care and minimising its negative effects. Each engaging and thoughtfully composed chapter concludes with a concise set of step-by-step instructions, so that caring professionals can easily make positive changes to attitudes and approaches in their settings. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Models of care and cultures of touch
- Talking about touch in care
- The experience of touch and a cognitive impairment
- A sense of touch and the experience of attachment
- Touch, confusion and uncertainty
- Non verbal consent to touch
- Touch, emotional needs, and personhood
- Touch, relationships, and intimacy
- Touch in care tasks
- Resistance to touch in care tasks
- Erotic touch and sexual intimacy
- Touching stuff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781784503734
- 1784503738
- Publisher Number:
- 99977972899
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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