3 Dementia
8. Describe person centred care.
Person centred care is about caring for the person, rather than the illness. Person-centred caring is about maintaining the persons dignity. It's about learning what things the patient responds well to, and treating them like a human being. Person-centred care involves tailoring a person's care to their interests, abilities, history and personality. This helps them to take part in the things they enjoy and can be an effective way of preventing and managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The key points of person-centred care are: treating the person with dignity and respect recognising person’s individuality and valuing the person understanding their history, lifestyle, culture and preferences, including their likes, dislikes, hobbies and interests looking at situations from the point of view of the person with dementia enabling social relationships - providing opportunities for the person to have conversations and relationships with other people ensuring the person has the chance to try new things or take part in activities they enjoy enabling choice, inclusion
Family, carers and the person with dementia (where possible) should always be involved in developing a care plan based on person-centred care. Their knowledge and understanding of the person is extremely valuable to make sure the care plan is right for them.
Person-centred care is a way of providing care with the person at the centre of everything you do. Another way of describing it is individualised care – care that is given to the person according to their needs, wishes, beliefs and preferences. Studies have shown that a person-centred approach can help reduce agitation in the person with dementia. Agitation is often caused by the person’s frustration in not being able to express themselves. The expression could be one of sadness, pain, thirst, hunger or tiredness. Other studies on a person-centred approach have shown that the person often remains
Person centred care is about caring for the person, rather than the illness. Person-centred caring is about maintaining the persons dignity. It's about learning what things the patient responds well to, and treating them like a human being. Person-centred care involves tailoring a person's care to their interests, abilities, history and personality. This helps them to take part in the things they enjoy and can be an effective way of preventing and managing behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia. The key points of person-centred care are: treating the person with dignity and respect recognising person’s individuality and valuing the person understanding their history, lifestyle, culture and preferences, including their likes, dislikes, hobbies and interests looking at situations from the point of view of the person with dementia enabling social relationships - providing opportunities for the person to have conversations and relationships with other people ensuring the person has the chance to try new things or take part in activities they enjoy enabling choice, inclusion
Family, carers and the person with dementia (where possible) should always be involved in developing a care plan based on person-centred care. Their knowledge and understanding of the person is extremely valuable to make sure the care plan is right for them.
Person-centred care is a way of providing care with the person at the centre of everything you do. Another way of describing it is individualised care – care that is given to the person according to their needs, wishes, beliefs and preferences. Studies have shown that a person-centred approach can help reduce agitation in the person with dementia. Agitation is often caused by the person’s frustration in not being able to express themselves. The expression could be one of sadness, pain, thirst, hunger or tiredness. Other studies on a person-centred approach have shown that the person often remains