Researchers are pairing a complementary therapy known as Healing Touch with mild sedation to see if the technique truly calms patients undergoing minor procedures. Often, a gentle hand on your ...

Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease create moments of disconnection for sufferers and their families. Nearly 6 million Americans, more than 40,000 here in the Hudson Valley, experience this during daily ...

A recent study indicates that in the everyday life of nursing homes, even brief contact is significant. The presence of nurses affects the quality and efficiency of nursing, but this requires ...

Its been five years of touch starvation. I’ll probably have some more years of it. I’m not handling this well. Lisbeth continued, “I feel like I’m dying from touch starvation, y’all. I don’t get hugs.

For over 40 years, I have practiced the integration of bodywork and psychotherapy as a clinician licensed in both disciplines. I have pioneered the integration of these methods at the Harvard Medical ...

Rae Lord “Ginger” Crowe, a nurse practitioner and longtime professor of nursing who became an early advocate of therapeutic touch, died Sunday of complications from dementia. She was 85. Crowe, who ...