Introduction to Person-Centered Care: A Fundamental Overview
This full-day program offers an overview of person-centered care tying in the various theories that have created the cornerstone of the movement as it relates to healthcare, regulation and service expectations. The federal regulations will be reviewed that charges facilities to adopt person-centric practice across the continuum of care. Participants will:
Identify what it means to be a person
Describe the basic principles of person-centered care using Kitwood, Maslow, Carboni and the Eden Alternative ®
Identify why personhood, autonomy, choice and purpose are vital to well-being and quality of life regardless of physical ailments, frailty or geography
Identify the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid regulatory requirements related to person-centered care
Look at Me Video: a video by the Veteran's Administration that tells the story of an elder in a long-term care facility. He asks those who care for him to see him as an individual instead of the shell of a person he is now.
Person-centered care is a dynamic process that facilitates individualized emotional, social, physical and spiritual support with the person. The support and care provided is based on the person's needs, values, aspirations and preferences.
Person-centered care promotes well-being through continuation of self and normality and the experience of living a life of enjoyment, comfort, belonging, purpose and meaning.
Person-centered care is based on humanistic values and the fundamental premise that every person has a unique history, strengths, interests, and needs and has the right to self-determination in how to go about living his/her own life.
Unpublished definition developed by the Dementia Action Alliance Research Group (February 2014)
Resources on Person-Centered Care
Person-centered care can be defined as transitioning away from a medical, institutional model of elder care to one that is life affirming, satisfying, humane and meaningful. This culture of care advocates for services in which individual voices are heard and individual choices are respected.
Regulations surrounding this culture of care can be found HERE.
LifeBio: a platform that helps people to tell and share their life stories, preserving memories and relationships to last for generations.
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