Care can be skilled while remaining warm enough to feel personal.

Competence and warmth are often treated as a trade, as though a careful professional must be cool and a kind one slightly amateur. In practice the best care is both: the dressing changed correctly and the person addressed by name, the procedure explained and the hand held. Warmth is not a decoration added after the skill. It is part of what makes skill land as care rather than as processing.

On the receiving end, you are allowed to want both and to say so. If you are giving it, keep one small personal habit inside the competent routine.