Luke Tanner

Embracing Touch in Dementia Care

A Person-Centred Approach to Touch and Relationships

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Providing clear answers for one of the most taboo challenges facing dementia care professionals today, this book instructs carers on how to re-evaluate their use of physical contact to create a more effective, person-centred care system, through training exercises on consent and non-verbal communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781785921094
• ISBN-10: 1785921096
• Artikelnr.: 47484783

Autorenporträt

Luke Tanner is a massage therapist, body psychotherapist and dementia care trainer. He specialises in the use of touch and non-verbal communication to support the wellbeing of people with a dementia living in residential care settings. He lives in London. More information about Luke's work can be found at www.touchincare.com.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction. 1. Models of Care and Cultures of Touch. 2. Talking
About Touch in Care. 3. The Experience of Touch and a Cognitive Impairment.
4. A Sense of Touch and the Experience of Attachment. 5. Touch, Confusion
and Uncertainty. 6. Non Verbal Consent to Touch. 7. Touch, Emotional Needs
and Personhood. 8. Touch, Relationships and Intimacy. 9. Touch in Care
Tasks. 10. Resistance to Touch in Care Tasks. 11. Erotic Touch and Sexual
Intimacy. 12. Touching Stuff. Conclusion. Appendices.