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Download PDF Promote person-centred approaches in health and social care


Sinopsis

Person-centred care is a way of providing care that is centred around the person, and not just their health or care needs. To explain this in simple terms, we are all individual – no two people are the same, so it is not appropriate to say that because two people have dementia they both have the same care and support needs. Person-centred values ensure a comprehensive understanding of individual needs and the development of appropriate individual care plans for all.

Person-centred values cover the total care of the person. The person is the centre of the plan, so they must be consulted and their views must always come first. The approach should include all aspects of their care: social services, health, family and the voluntary sector. Person-centred planning is central to the White Paper ‘Valuing People’ (Department of Health, 2001). One of the challenges this presents is how we can fully involve people with high support needs, who may not use words to speak, in person-centred planning. Traditionally, when we have considered how we can involve people in planning we have concentrated on the
planning meeting. The personalisation agenda is leading some of the changes happening in social care today.


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