What Is Care Science? The Person-in-Need Centered Approach

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...

The Need for an Interconnected , Person - Centered , Health - Focused Approach

The notion that the medical professions are grounded in sound social and philosophical commitments to human well-being and advancement is the very foundation of medicine since time in memoriam. Caring is the essential work of all health professionals, since most patients have no medical condition explainable by the mechanistic biomedical model. Health, illness, and disease, and biomedically def...

Is patient-centered care the same as person-focused care?

Both patient-centered and person-focused care are important, but they are different. In contrast to patient-centered care (at least as described in the current literature with assessments that are visit-based), person-focused care is based on accumulated knowledge of people, which provides the basis for better recognition of health problems and needs over time and facilitates appropriate care f...

What is person-centred care in dementia?

What is Ethics of Science and Technology?

Background: The existence of crises and problems such as non-compliance with standards and professional ethics in the field of engineering and technology, and existence of fraud and misuse in the field of science has resulted in importance of ethics in the science and technology. But the fact is that there is no accurate understanding of the ethics of science and technology, and this field is o...