Making person-centred assessments

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 Therapy

Dr. Carl Rogers, the American psychologist and founder of what has now become known as person-centred counselling or psychotherapy, has always claimed to be grateful that he never had one particular mentor. He has been influenced by many significant figures often holding widely differing viewpoints; but above all he claims to be the student of his own experience and of that of his clients and c...

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 ...

Commentary: Becoming a person centred practice.

Providing patients with access to their medical records can improve their communication with clinicians and increase their understanding of their illness. It’s therefore baffling that only 3% of people in the UK have online access to them. This should increase given NHSEngland’s pledge to give patients full access to their medical records by 2018. The concerns Walker et al summarise about openi...