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Person Centred Care & Care Planning the SHARP way
Key Features of Person Centred Care
- Accentuates the positive and minimises the negative
- Focuses on strengths and abilities rather than weaknesses and disabilities
- Promotes well-being and minimizes ill-being – a positive rather than a negative approach
- Focuses on the perspective of the individual, rather than the staff’s perspective
- Care is planned around the individual and not the home – not task-orientated care
- Behaviours which challenges others are seen as an expression of feelings and/or
- Behaviours which challenges others are seen as a means of communication – the onus is on staff to interpret as far as possible
- Acknowledges that there is always a reason for a behaviour
- Accepts the reality of the person and does not insist on bringing him/her into our reality, which can cause distress to the person, for example, not telling a person that their mother is dead when he/she calls for them
- Acknowledges each person as a unique individual in all our words and actions
- Does not use detracting words or labels, e.g. ‘uncooperative’ or ‘a wanderer’ or ‘a feeder’
- Care workers try to see things through the person’s eyes and not theirs
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