title: Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health, Staffordshire University, Blackheath.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Barry
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Aveyard
authors.forename: Meg
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sykes
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003142:Communication; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D018450:Disease Progression; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D017144:Focus Groups; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome