This week, an online article caught my eye. It was a report on research into patients with heart disease who had undergone surgery to implant called a Ventricular Assist Device, or LVAD. Turns out that a few weeks after surgery, the patients felt much better, but their caregivers felt worse.
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THE CAREGIVERS' LIVING ROOM - A Blog by Donna Thomson: The Caregivers’ Six Senses: Today is TOUCH
This is the first in a mini-series about how the senses are used in caregiving. Today’s subject: TOUCH One of the benefits of caregiving, I believe, is that we touch the people we love more than the average, busy working person. Young parents know the primal satisfaction of touching their
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