What we need is person-centred care

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...

What is person-centred care in dementia?

Who should decide how much and what information is important in person-centred health care?

Most guidelines for clinical practice, and especially those for the construction of decision support tools, assume that the individual person (the patient) needs to be in possession of information of particular sorts and amount in order to qualify as having made an 'informed decision'. This often implicitly segues into the patient having made a 'good decision'. In person-centred health care, wh...

Perspectives: Is health and social care person centred?

The World Health Organisation (www.who.int) confirms a growing global population that requires access to effective health care, yet the economic burden of delivery raises questions about whether individualised care is realistic or achievable. Person-centred care places people as equal partners in addressing their individual health care needs. Such a ‘personalised’ approach aims to ensure treatm...

Why is missing what we need

Access consciousness of agents as Homer and COMA cannot be separated from a body (Total Turing Test), but this body cannot be any aggregate of matter: human beings looking at these bodies and confuse us, to process them as to other humans. The phenomenological properties of the bodies of these agents, the way they appear to us, being indistinguishable from the phenomenological properties of hum...