Developing, promoting and adopting a person-centred research and care (PCRC) framework

Promoting person-centred care at the front line

How to practice person‐centred care: A conceptual framework

BACKGROUND Globally, health-care systems and organizations are looking to improve health system performance through the implementation of a person-centred care (PCC) model. While numerous conceptual frameworks for PCC exist, a gap remains in practical guidance on PCC implementation. METHODS Based on a narrative review of the PCC literature, a generic conceptual framework was developed in coll...

Developing person-centred care: addressing contextual challenges through practice development.

Developing person-centred care is not a one-time event; rather it requires a sustained commitment from organisations to the ongoing facilitation of developments, a commitment both in clinical teams and across organizations. Contextual factors pose the greatest challenge to person-centredness and the development of cultures that can sustain person-centred care. We will begin with a general comme...

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...

Rhetoric and reality in person-centred care: introducing the House of Care framework.

We would like to follow up the recent editorial entitled ‘Safer “chemsex”’ by Ma and Perera1 by including sexually transmissible enteric infections (STEI) among the pathogens whose transmission may be associated with chemsex. Shigella, which causes a range of gastrointestinal symptoms in humans,2 is the primary example here, although verocytotoxinproducing Escherichia coli has also been describ...