Touch is essential when living with dementia for communication and remaining connected with the world, and it is also unavoidable when performing body care. Thus, it is impossible to think of living and caring for people with dementia in the absence of touch. Drawing from my ethnographic fieldwork conducted with therapy animals and people living with dementia in Scottish care facilities, in this article I argue that the public health measures taken against the spread of COVID-19 infections need to be reimagined by taking into consideration the role of touch. Furthermore, I try to draw attention to the lessons that we should learn about touch and the role of intimate bodily entanglements in dementia care from the high COVID-19 death tolls amongst British care home residents.

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非接触式大流行中的接触世界

与痴呆症患者进行交流和与世界保持联系时，触摸是必不可少的，在进行身体护理时也是不可避免的。因此，不可能在没有接触的情况下生活和照顾痴呆症患者。根据我在苏格兰护理机构中对治疗动物和痴呆症患者进行的人种学实地调查，在本文中，我认为需要通过考虑触摸的作用来重新构想为防止 COVID-19 感染传播而采取的公共卫生措施. 此外，我试图从英国疗养院居民的高 COVID-19 死亡人数中提请注意我们应该学习的关于触摸和亲密身体纠缠在痴呆症护理中的作用的教训。