Compassionate Touch ® can also assist in:

• Increasing body awareness.
• Reducing anxiety
• Alleviating discomfort.
• “Grounding” the spatially disoriented and confused.
• Focusing attention.
• Addressing feelings of isolation and abandonment.
• Calming those who are agitated or distraught.
• Engaging attention.
• Promoting interaction.
• Preventing or helping cope with challenging behaviors such as agitation, wandering, and obstinacy.
• Reducing the need for drug intervention and physical restraints.

Compassionate Touch ® can also assist in:

• One-on-one attention.
• Skin-to-skin human contact.
• Nurturing; Comfort; Pleasure.
• Tool for reinforcing verbal communication.
• Way of relating non-verbally.
• Tactile and sensory stimulation.
• Opportunity for physical and social interaction.
• Focus for distraction and redirection, if necessary.
• Touchstone with physical reality.
• Acceptance of the way things are.
• Reassurance that one is not alone.
• Acknowledgment of the individual.

Why offer Sensitive Massage and Focused Touch in your facility?

• More elders and baby boomers are turning to massage than ever before. Public awareness about the benefits of massage is growing!
• At the same time, eldercare and hospice organizations are recognizing the value of adding touch therapies to the programs and services they offer.
• Your ‘customers’ (board members, caregivers, family members, AND the federal and state governments) are demanding that you look for innovative complementary services and products that will improve the quality of life. Those who are creatively responding to this demand will stand out in their respective markets.

When you integrate massage into your facility, your organization gains:

• Recognition by raising the standard of care.
• Addition of a low-cost approach that has the potential to increase quality of life, decrease pain, ease the dying process, and help regulate behavior.
• A progressive, complementary intervention that is in step with the trend of increased use of massage by consumers.
• Greater employee and customer satisfaction.

There are many creative ways to fund this simple way to improve quality of life for your residents and staff.