Person Centred Care
Person Centred Care
The purpose of this course is to provide guidance on the first steps towards implementing person-centred care in care services. The target audience for this workshop includes team leaders, quality managers and learning and development managers. This project was funded by the Aged Care Quality Standards and included development of the resource and a national rollout of the workshops across Australia.
The learning outcomes of this workshop include:
- Describe the first steps towards implementing person-centred care in your care home.
- Describe your own practice-based understanding of person-centred care and compare this with contemporary explanations of person-centred care in the literature.
- Describe 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 present (inhibit) well-being.
- Use published tools to assess and measure the person-centredness of your care home.
- Identify what environmental and care practice changes are necessary in your workplace to deliver person-centred care.
- Develop an action plan to bring about change and implement person centred care in your workplace.
Completion of Program
Provides 7 hours of learning activities which is equivalent to 7 CPD points.
Download the Person-Centred Care: What are the first steps towards implementation in residential aged care? PDF.
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