Whole Person, Whole Journey: Developing a Person-Centred Regional Dementia Strategy

Person-centred dementia services

Background: we evaluated a specialist community-based dementia service to establish whether high quality care was being delivered and the conditions for doing so. The service was in an urban part of Rushcliffe Primary Care Trust, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom. The service comprised an assessment team of an occupational therapist, a community psychiatric nurse and a community care officer, sup...

Person-centred Sociotherapy: Applying Person-centred Attitudes, Principles and Practices to Social Situations, Groups and Society as a Whole

Theoretical support and a rationale is offered for extending person-centred practice into social domains in order to promote a sense of social inclusion. This strategy is called ‘person-centred sociotherapy'. It is argued that mental and emotional distress has social and environmental causes and that person-centred sociotherapy prevents or at least mitigates the ill-effects induced by these. Th...

What is person-centred care in dementia?

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...

Exploring This Issue: Whole-Person, Whole-Systems Health and Healing

Editorial T his issue of Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHMJ) presents a diversity of topics relevant to whole-person, whole-systems health and healing. In one of this issue's original articles, Hathaway et al performed a retrospective analysis of the University of Cincinnati's neonatal integrative therapy services. 1 Hospitalized infants in the neonatal intensive care unit were treat...