“We are already person-centred in our practice”—A Qualitative Study of Ambulance Clinicians’ Experiences of Person-Centred Care

Experiences of person-centred care - patients’ perceptions: qualitative study

BACKGROUND Patient care models have been implemented and documented worldwide. Many studies have focused on features that hinder and facilitate the shift to such models, including the implementation process, staff involvement, resistance to new models and cultural dimensions. However, few studies have identified the potential effects of such new care models from a patient perspective. The aim o...

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...

Person-centred care for demented older adults: a qualitative analysis.

2. Formal caregivers associated PCC with positive and empathic feelings, and believed it to be in line with their professional ethics, principles, and organisational vision, mission, and values. However, ambivalent feelings were recorded when formal caregivers encountered difficulties in practising PCC. Formal caregivers reported good practices in providing daily care that aligned with PCC prin...

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 ...