Is it person centred multidisciplinary team care?

What is person-centred care in dementia?

What we need is person-centred care

Sukhera and colleagues [1] have tackled a thorny issue. Despite good intentions, health care providers are among the groups most often identified by people with a mental illness as stigmatizing toward them. Recurrent themes in the literature that fall under the rubric of stigma are that patients feel as if they were being patronized, humiliated, treated like children, excluded from treatment de...

Advancing multidisciplinary team care.

Up to 10 million females and 1 million males suffer from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa in the United States, and many more struggle with binge eating disorder. These conditions frequently occur with other mental health and substance abuse problems. Individuals suffering from an eating disorder (ED) often seek care from their family physician, and it has been suggested that primary care pr...

Perspectives: Is health and social care person centred?

The World Health Organisation (www.who.int) confirms a growing global population that requires access to effective health care, yet the economic burden of delivery raises questions about whether individualised care is realistic or achievable. Person-centred care places people as equal partners in addressing their individual health care needs. Such a ‘personalised’ approach aims to ensure treatm...

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 ...