Training Doctors for Person-Centered Care

Person-centered care--ready for prime time.

Long-term diseases are today the leading cause of mortality worldwide and are estimated to be the leading cause of disability by 2020. Person-centered care (PCC) has been shown to advance concordance between care provider and patient on treatment plans, improve health outcomes and increase patient satisfaction. Yet, despite these and other documented benefits, there are a variety of significant...

Person-centered health education and training

During the last decade, a series of new models have transformed our understanding of the concept of health and of the implementation of health care systems. Person-centered medicine (PCM) model is one of them (1). The International College of Person-Centered Medicine (ICPCM) promotes medicine of the person, for the person, by the person, and with the person. The ICPCM emerged from the ongoing a...

A person-centered workplace: the foundation for person-centered caregiving in long-term care.

OBJECTIVE This study seeks to understand what role managers and the work setting they create play in a nursing facility that seeks to make a transition to person-centered care. DESIGN The study uses a human-relations framework to test 3 propositions: Managers play a critical role in the satisfaction, loyalty and commitment (ie, the engagement) of their staff; managers construct a person-cente...

FROM THE THIRD GENEVA CONFERENCE ON PERSON-CENTERED MEDICINE: PERSON-CENTERED CLINICAL CARE ACTIVITIES Person-centered Therapeutics

A clinician’s effectiveness in treatment depends substantially on his or her attitude toward -and understanding of -the patient as a person endowed with self-awareness and the will to direct his or her own future. The assessment of personality in the therapeutic encounter is a crucial foundation for forming an effective working alliance with shared goals. Helping a person to reflect on their pe...

VIPS Communication Skills Training for Paraprofessional Dementia Caregivers: An Intervention to Increase Person-Centered Dementia Care