A multimodal communication care method: HumanitudeR
Humanitude is a non-pharmacological comprehensive intervention with verbal and non-verbal communication, which is a care method that originated in France for vulnerable elderlies. The concept of Humanitude is based on the notion of well-being; it shows how behaviors and simple actions that reach the most essentially human core in people are effective (Gineste 2007). The methodology is consistent with four fundamental techniques to communicate with people with dementia: “gaze”, “speech”, “touch” and “assistance to stand up”. Table 1 shows the features of the first three of these techniques,