Healthcare professionals may not be maintaining person-centred care for people with dementia hospitalised on acute wards

摘要

Many organisations have identified person-centred care as key to promoting quality of life for persons with dementia. The majority of efforts to enhance person-centred care have largely occurred in residential long-term settings as part of a multipronged effort to enact culture change and make these environments less 'institutional'. However, less research has focused on acute care settings as sites to promote person-centred care in persons with dementia, due in part to the short-term stays that often define such settings. Utilising the five domains of Kitwood's model of personhood in dementia (identity, inclusion, attachment, comfort and occupation) as an a priori theoretical framework, Clissett and colleagues examined the person-centred care process for cognitively impaired older adults in acute care.