A World of Touch in a No-Touch Pandemic

Touch is essential when living with dementia for communication and remaining connected the world, it also unavoidable performing body care. Thus, impossible to think of caring people in absence touch. Drawing from my ethnographic fieldwork conducted therapy animals Scottish care facilities, this article I argue that public health measures taken against spread COVID-19 infections need be reimagined by taking into consideration role Furthermore, try draw attention lessons we should learn about touch intimate bodily entanglements high death tolls amongst British home residents.