Ginger Peer-Spencer, founder of Heartfelt Community, will be teaching a workshop on Saturday at Gloucester Library for family and professional caregivers, those who would like to volunteer with the group, and those who already volunteer in our 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, a release stated. The workshop will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the library at Main Street Center, Gloucester. To register, call or te...