A Multi Agency Prevention Platform (MAPP) - Delivering integrated, person-centred care

Delivering person centred care in long term conditions.

Long term conditions are a major challenge to the sustainability of health services globally. Their increasing prevalence is associated with growing rates of preventable complications and premature mortality, resulting in soaring costs (box 1). These factors, coupled with higher expectations among patients and the public, create an urgent need to redesign health services, which are still largel...

Heavy menstrual bleeding: delivering patient-centred care.

What is person-centred care in dementia?

Caring about symptoms in person-centred care

In the present article, we emphasize the symptom experience perspective in person-centred care and discuss barriers to implementation of this approach. There are obstacles to overcome: the diversity of understandings of symptoms in clinical settings, the current biomedical discourse and the incompleteness of symptom research. Since the 19th century, the biomedical perspective has been powerful ...

Dementia and the person-centred care approach.

Approaches to care that focus solely on biomedical needs are still rife in dementia; however, a person-centred approach is emerging that focuses on 'seeing the person'. This article explores the literature on person-centred dementia care to determine if it is an ideal rather than a reality. The background to the development of person-centred care is presented with reference to policies in place...