Person-Centered Care Planning: Preferences Are a Priority

In their accompanying article on assessment of preferences and priorities of both community-dwelling and institutionalized elders, Abbott et  al1 have compiled a practical “best-of” list of important quality-of-life determinants that we clinicians can use in our daily work. The notion of person-centered care has been a welcome guiding principle in general medical practice, and specifically in geriatrics and long-term care, for quite some time. In fact, a PubMed search reveals the notion of person-centered (as differentiated from patient-centered) care first mentioned almost 50 years ago in the nursing literature.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - December 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Karl E. Steinberg Tags: Editorial Source Type: research