A Variation in Nursing Massage

Today in class we learned the importance of incorporating massage into patient care. Older adults (especially) in long-term care (LTC) facilities (e.g. nursing homes) don't often receive adequate physical contact, which is essentially vital to human life (not in the same way as water, but people are made to have physical contact with one another. So, a person deprived of physical touch will likely suffer some physical, mental, and emotional repercussions (maybe feelings of neglect, worthlessness, low-self esteem, loneliness, etc)

Anyhow, we're learning to give massage, and we watched this video which illustrated "proper" massage technique...

Next time you're a resident (i.e. you live there) in a Long-term Care facility...consider asking your nurse why he/she is not in a gorilla suit.