Person-centred care in psychiatry: a clinical and philosophically informed approach

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...

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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 ...

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...

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