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TMA 01 Part A - Essay _______________________________________________ Option 1 Why is contact with or sight of a person's body often a difficult issue in care relationships? What strategies can carers use to manage intimate care? Care work does include seeing and touching people in ways that are out of the ordinary rules applying to western society. For both the cared for and the caring this is difficult. Understanding this difficulties is important to develop strategies to manage intimate care. As Jourard (1966) shows, adults rarely touch each other at body regions other than arms and hands, except in sexual relationships. Difficulties in care arise because we aren't used to touching and therefore lack experience on how to deal with it. That makes it hard to define a role for oneself (see Goffman 1975) in this kind of situation. To attune the definitions of the persons involved will be difficult as well. The mostly untouched is the genital area (Jourard, 1966) and in care the...

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