What is preventing dentists from providing person-centred care?

What is person-centred care in dementia?

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...

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...

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 ...