Ginger Peer-Spencer, founder of Heartfelt Community, will teach a workshop later this month for family and professional caregivers, those who would like to volunteer, and those who already volunteer in the community’s nursing and retirement homes. Compassionate Touch is a non-pharmaceutical approach combining skilled touch and specialized communication shown to prevent behavioral expression in people with dementia and reduce job stress in care-partners. In palliative care, it provides a skilled touch with compassionate presence to enhance quality of life for those in the later stages of life. Compassionate Touch can be utilized in any caregiving situation to instill trust, combat isolation, loneliness and has been shown to relieve physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual discomfort. The public is invited to take part in the workshop, which will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Monday at the Gloucester Library, Main Street Center. Register by call or text to Spencer at 804-832...