Le massage bien-être de la personne âgée, 1e

Wellness massage for the elderly

Michel Billé, Joël Savatofski
Elsevier
120 pages
ISBN: 9782294788321
May 2025

The objective of this book is to inform, raise awareness and introduce caregivers to the gestures of touch/massage in geriatric services, in nursing homes or at home. Based on more than 30 years of educational research and field experience, touch-massage techniques, initially taught to nursing students and nursing assistants, are now widely adopted by healthcare professionals. So that the discourse of caregivers is no longer so distant, so that professionals are not confined to a technician role and so that care is no longer essentially centered on curative or replacement, but just as much on the human connection, it is essential to offer them the means to provide care differently, to allow them to establish a richer, more tender contact, to reinvent the free gesture.