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Article #112: Compassionate Touch and Alzheimer's

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Before we consider compassionate touch or provides the Alzheimer sufferers to
massage, and Alzheimer's disease, we need relax, and so reducing the anxiety
to know what Alzheimer's disease actually associated with it. The compassionate
is. It is a neurological disorder touch therapy through massage offers
characterized by a loss of memory, immense relief and aids the drug therapy,
speechlessness and paralysis. It is a which the sufferers of Alzheimer's
progressive disease that destroys parts disease may have been prescribed with.
of the brain, and is therefore incurable. The massage therapy can be effective in
Compassionate Touch and Deciding on two ways: it can induce relaxation by
Massage Approach alleviating some of the anxiety
For the person suffering from Alzheimer's associated with Alzheimer's, and it can
disease who has lost memory, your stimulate the nervous system that is in
compassionate touch may be the one thing decline because of the disease.
with which he or she connects. Hold your The elderly sufferers of Alzheimer's
loved one's hands, give a gentle massage generally experience a loss of
to his or her feet, legs, or arms. Even sensitivity to touch and the
if the one suffering from Alzheimer's compassionate touch of massage can help
does not recognize you and cannot to re-invigorate it. Alzheimer's massage
communicate verbally, this is one way of can have other benefits as well. In
reassurance and love. Alzheimer's massage addition to helping eliminate or reduce
decreases physical agitation and improves anxiety, massage can also decrease the
sleep patterns in people suffering from amount of pain experienced by Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's disease. sufferers. Compassionate touch is an
A 26-minute video available on - expression of intimacy and emotional
"Compassionate touch: benefits and connectedness and if carried out by
effects in Alzheimer's care" - shows the family members, can elicit increased
use of attentive touch and gentle massage contact and improved communication.
in caring for and relating to people with The relations between compassionate touch
Alzheimer's disease. Massage is and Alzheimer's is only being realized
therapeutic and its application in now. Alzheimer's massage benefits the
Alzheimer's disease has shown reduction sufferers not only by relieving pain, but
in behaviors such as wandering, also by their over-all protection.
aggression and agitation. Building the nervous system's response to
The stimulation provided by massage helps stimuli enables the elderly Alzheimer's
Alzheimer patients to communicate patients to resist physical and mental
physically. The direct physical contact decline.






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