Person-centred care and HIV: challenges and solutions

Developing person-centred care: addressing contextual challenges through practice development.

Developing person-centred care is not a one-time event; rather it requires a sustained commitment from organisations to the ongoing facilitation of developments, a commitment both in clinical teams and across organizations. Contextual factors pose the greatest challenge to person-centredness and the development of cultures that can sustain person-centred care. We will begin with a general comme...

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

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 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...

What is person-centred care in dementia?