Person-centered care and personhood: How to understand, access, record and integrate personhood in care context for person with high support needs who cannot verbally express themselves KU Leuven
Person-centered care has been on the health care agenda for several decades. To practice person-centered care it is important to have a clear picture of who a person is, or to put it differently, to recognize his/her personhood. Personhood is ensured by the presence of the other and is therefore something essentially social. However, it is difficult to know the personhood of people with high support needs, who have limited symbolic awareness ...