05/11/2024
A friend of mine does amazing work helping the elderly in her community and each Tuesday they have a group catchup morning where they chat, play games and have lunch.
She invites me to go along each month and give the group members soothing hand massages.
I love volunteering with them. The connection we get from those short hand massage sessions is both lovely and humbling.
The skin on their hands is - in their own words - worn and wrinkled and they tell me of their sore or stiff joints and tendon pain, of trouble opening jars or digging the garden.
Often the massages give them a bit of a reprieve from pain or stiffness and yet the favourite bit for them often seems to simply be getting their hands gently and genuinely held for a while 🌻
