Therapeutic touch in dementia care

Aveyard, Barry; Doherty, Donna

doi:10.7748/nop.14.6.20.s12

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“…Touch interventions (n = 9) involve gentle touching of the hands (Schaub et al, 2018;Snyder et al, 1995), feet (Moyle et al, 2014), other parts of the body, such as shoulders (Skovdahl et al, 2007;Suzuki et al, 2010;Woods et al, 2005Woods et al, , 2009. It may not even necessitate actual physical touch but simply holding the hands over the body and "energetically" touching the patient (Aveyard & Doherty, 2002;Hawranik et al, 2008). Nurses (n = 5), staff (n = 1), and trained therapists (n = 3) administer therapeutic touch in specialized care (n = 5) and assisted living (n = 4) settings.…”

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A scoping review: Sensory interventions for older adults living with dementia

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This scoping review focused on the existing scholarly literature exploring sensory interventions and immersive environments developed for, and used by, older adults living with dementia. The purpose of the scoping review is 1) to understand the various sensory interventions that have been developed, used, and have provided data to show how such interventions are expected to impact the lives of individuals living with dementia; and 2) to understand how the field is moving forward. We chose to map the literature to understand the types of interventions, the types of outcomes measured, and the contexts of their implementation. Our search was constrained to references from 1990 to 1 June 2019 in the following databases: Academic Search Complete, CINAHL Complete, MEDLINE, PsycINFO databases, and Summon Search discovery layer. We screened 2305 articles based on their titles and abstracts, and 465 were sent to full text review, of which 170 were included in our full text extraction. Once the data were extracted, we created emic categories, which emerged from the data, for data that were amenable to categorization (e.g., study setting, intervention type, and outcome type). We developed ten different categories of interventions: art, aromatics, light, multi-component interventions, multisensory rooms, multisensory, music, nature, touch, and taste. Sensory interventions are a standard psychosocial approach to managing the personal expressions commonly experienced by people living with dementia. Our findings can help providers, caregivers, and researchers better design interventions for those living with dementia, to help them selectively choose interventions for particular outcomes and settings. Two areas emerging in the field are nature interventions (replacing traditional “multisensory rooms” with natural environments that are inherently multisensory and engaging) and multi-component interventions (where cognitive training programs are enhanced by adding sensory components).

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“…Validating the individual as a person (Feil, 1992), and forming a therapeutic alliance with patients and family is important to the creation of a safe environment. • Therapeutic touch (Aveyard et al, 2002) may serve a tactile precursor object function, as something introduced into the potential space by the clinician. • The bad news is later followed by the clinician outlining the treatment plan.…”

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The transitional object in dementia: clinical implications

LoboPrabhu

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2007

Appl Psychoanal Studies

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“…The previous artide (Aveyard 2002) set the scene in discussing how Kendray Hospital practice development unit began working with Professor Stephen V\/right and the Sacred space Foundation to implement a programme of therapeutic touch training for its staff. The study examined both the effects of therapeutic touch for patients and the effects on staff and clinical practice.…”

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“…The first article. Therapeutic touch in dementia care (Aveyard 2002), set out the basic theory and importance of therapeutic touch and touch within the dementia care setting.…”

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Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey

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Aveyard

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Nursing Older People

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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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Therapeutic touch in dementia care

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A scoping review: Sensory interventions for older adults living with dementia

A scoping review: Sensory interventions for older adults living with dementia

The transitional object in dementia: clinical implications

Therapeutic touch and dementia care: an ongoing journey

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