Person‐Centered Care: A Definition and Essential Elements
Abstract
Improving healthcare safety, quality, and coordination, as well as quality of life, are important aims of caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and/or functional limitations. Person-centered care is an approach to meeting these aims, but there are no standardized, agreed-upon parameters for delivering such care. The SCAN Foundation charged a team from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) in collaboration with a research and clinical team from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California to provide the evidence base to support a definition of person-centered care and its essential elements. An interprofessional panel of experts in person-centered care principles and practices that the AGS convened developed this statement.
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Funding
- John A. Hartford Foundation
- Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
- Schenectady Foundation
- Yale University
- University of Southern California
- Florida State University
- University of Washington
- SCAN Foundation
- University of California, Los Angeles
- School of Medicine, Indiana University
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
- NIH Clinical Center
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