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3 min
A three-minute hand massage for someone in bed
The single most useful thing to learn first. Lotion, pressure, direction and how to stop well.
10 lessons, free to watch
How-to videos
Short and practical, filmed the way we teach it at the bedside. Watch one, try it tonight. Nothing here needs equipment, training, or permission from anybody except the person you are caring for.
Hands-on comfort
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6 min
Gentle foot massage in a chair or a recliner
Where to sit, how to hold the heel, and the two areas to leave alone entirely.
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5 min
What light pressure really means
Most families press far too hard because they were taught massage should be deep. Here is the real target.
End of life
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7 min
Comfort touch for restlessness and agitation
Still hands, paced breathing and quiet, for the nights when someone cannot settle.
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9 min
Massage when someone is on hospice: safe, skip, ask
A plain walk through what is fine to do at home, what to avoid, and what to run past the nurse first.
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8 min
Touch in the final days
What changes in the last days, what a person can still feel, and how to simply be there.
Daily care
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10 min
Safe positioning and pillow support in bed
Turning, propping and padding so a visit is comfortable and nobody gets hurt, including you.
Caregiver wellbeing
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7 min
Protecting your own back, wrists and hands
Bed height, body position and small resets you can do between tasks.
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5 min
Five minutes for yourself, in the room
A short breathing and self-massage practice that works without leaving the bedside.
Working with the care team
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6 min
How to ask the care team about massage
The words that get a clear answer from a nurse, a doctor or a facility about touch and comfort care.
A note on safety
These lessons are general comfort care, not treatment. Skip any area that is bruised, swollen, sore, broken, has a line or a wound in it, or that the person does not want touched, and ask the nurse or doctor first if there is cancer in the bones, a clot, a fresh surgery, or you simply are not sure. Light and brief is always safe ground.