Person-centered care offers a unique and compelling opportunity for dentistry and its practitioners to improve the quality of care and overall health outcomes. For decades, the dominant treatment ...

End-of-life care too often falls short of its promise to help a patient live fully—sacrificing quality of life for symptom management. When it comes to systemic improvement of our healthcare delivery ...

Skills for Health, Health Education England, and Skills for Care have announced a new Framework to support person-centered approaches for the health and social care workforce. This approach, outlined ...

Systematic efforts and a clear structure are decisive factors in the transition to person-centred health care. A new study reflects what is now a decade of experience and research in the field.

'Person-centered care' means that people's values and preferences are obtained and, once expressed, guide all aspects of health care and support realistic health and life goals, according to an ...

The irony of current times is that despite the writing on the wall “health is a fundamental human right,” the ground reality cannot be farther from the truth. Over 70% people die of non-communicable ...

In recent weeks, a study by the Human Rights Watch has shed light on a serious problem across many facilities where seniors live in America: the over-prescription of antipsychotics to unnecessarily ...

How can apathy be managed in an individual with frontotemporal dementia? Frontotemporal dementia or frontotemporal ...

Both person-centred care and dementia-care mapping* reduce agitation in people with dementia in residential care. In addition, person-centred approaches can be taught quickly and should be introduced ...

The intense pressure to meet staffing needs, along with the fervent obligation to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, can adversely impact our approach to leading people. Focusing on the ...