By now, healthcare and medical professionals know that person-centered care is the gold standard in the planning, delivery and quality of care for people young and old. It has received…
Category: Person Centered Care
How “Resident-Centered” is Your Care Community
As a leader in senior care, have you tried to measure how “resident-centered” you and your staff are? You already know that resident-centered care is an offshoot of the broader…
5 Stops of the Person-Centered Senior Care Roadmap
While person-centered care has been around in nursing homes and assisted living communities for at least two decades, everyone seems to have their own version of it. Not that this…
Beware the “Institutional Creep”
Being a strong advocate of person-centered care, I sometimes fear that some senior care communities will drift back to their institutionalized ways. Whether it’s how nurses deliver care or how…
Person-Centered Care: The Importance of Obtaining and Sharing Information
While making cultural changes including flexible medication passes, extending mealtimes and choices of food, and turning shower rooms into spas, the most important element of person-centered care is the quality…
Barriers to Person-Centered Care and Culture Change
While person-centered care has been around for decades now, it took some time to work its way through senior care communities throughout the United States. Even today, there are some…