Care workers, the unacknowledged persons in person-centred care: A secondary qualitative analysis of UK care home staff interviews.

Personhood discourses in dementia care have gained prominence and current care home standards mandate that care should be "person-centred". However, it is unclear how the personhood of staff is construed within the care relationship. This paper aims to explore how the personhood of paid ca...

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Main Authors: Adam Kadri, Penny Rapaport, Gill Livingston, Claudia Cooper, Sarah Robertson, Paul Higgs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6037344?pdf=render