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| Therapeutic touch in dementia care | | Author(s) | Barry Aveyard, Meg Sykes, Donna Doherty |
| Journal title | Nursing Older People, vol 14, no 6, September 2002 |
| Pages | pp 20-21 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Touch ; Therapy ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Touch is considered by many as a core aspect of care-giving and of the nurse-patient relationship. This article reviews the evidence and current debates relating to the effects of therapeutic touch for older people with mental health needs. It introduces a project being run at Kendray Hospital's Nurse Development Unit (NDU) in Barnsley, and outlines the aims the of study, results of which are to be reported in a future issue of Nursing Older People. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020919203 A |
| Classmark | EA: BLU: LO: 64A |
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