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Tips for Caregivers: Namaste Care
Overview
This guide teaches caregivers how to provide Namaste Care, a multi-sensory approach for enhancing quality of life in people with moderate to advanced dementia. It covers creating calm environments with music and scents, detailed step-by-step hand massage techniques from shoulder to fingertips, pain assessment using rating scales, multi-sensory activities like reminiscence therapy and music sessions, and recording systems to track individual responses to different stimuli for personalized care planning.
This article was published by Tan Tock Seng Hospital and updated in 2026.