Reaching out with a reassuring hug or touch of a hand is a natural part of Sasha Adler’s job as a geriatric social worker.
Adler specializes in elder care, visiting clients and their families in their homes in Toronto. She says there’s an empathy communicated through touch that just can’t be expressed through words.
“It’s just something that naturally happens,” said Adler. “When people are vigilling … people will touch each other at the back of their necks … this sort of reassuring, acknowledging touching.”
The past two years of physical distancing measures disrupted the kind of care she and other
