Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention

Argyle, Elaine and Kelly, Tony (2015) Implementing person centred dementia care: a musical intervention

What is person-centred care in dementia?

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...

Person-centred dementia services

Background: we evaluated a specialist community-based dementia service to establish whether high quality care was being delivered and the conditions for doing so. The service was in an urban part of Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The service comprised an assessment team of an occupational therapist, a community psychiatric nurse and a community care officer, sup...

Person-centred care and care mapping in dementia.

The Caring for Aged Dementia Care Resident Study (CADRES), published in this issue of The Lancet Neurology, is a cluster-randomised clinical trial in which 324 people with dementia in residential care were randomly assigned one of three treatments: person-centred care, dementiacare mapping, or usual care. Person-centred care puts the person with dementia at the centre of the care-planning proce...