Person-centred care

Overview

This one-day workshop demystifies person-centred care and provides an overview of the current thinking about person-centred care.

In just one day of your time, you will come away with a practical action plan and you will receive internationally-recognised practical tools to implement person-centred care in your home. Person-centred care does involve change and this one-day workshop will provide you with the tools to implement and monitor the changes so they are measurable and sustainable.

This workshop focuses on one model of person-centred care that describes how the care environment influences and supports working positively with life-long values and beliefs of residents. This has been developed by Dementia Studies Training Unit experts in Victoria and NSW.

Learning outcomes

Though active participation in this one-day workshop you will:

describe the first steps towards implementing person-centred care in their care home
descibe their own practice based understanding of person-centred care and compare this with contemporary explanations of person-centred care in the literature
descibe a framework for person-centred care practice
reflect on the attributes needed to be person-centred
reflect on how the care environment influences the delivery of person-centred care
describe how the physical environment can help promote (enable) and prevent (inhibit) well being
use published tools to assess and measure the person-centredness of their care home
identify what environment and care practice changes are necessary in their workplace to deliver person-centred care
develop an action plan to bring about change and implement person-centred care in their workplace.

RCNA CNE points 7

Target audience

This workshop has been developed specifically for senior aged care staff who have the capacity to lead and implement change in care systems and processes and may include: