title: Person-Centered Care: A Definition and Essential Elements.
abstract: Improving healthcare safety, quality, and coordination, as well as quality of life, are important aims of caring for older adults with multiple chronic conditions and/or functional limitations. Person-centered care is an approach to meeting these aims, but there are no standardized, agreed-upon parameters for delivering such care. The SCAN Foundation charged a team from the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) in collaboration with a research and clinical team from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California to provide the evidence base to support a definition of person-centered care and its essential elements. An interprofessional panel of experts in person-centered care principles and practices that the AGS convened developed this statement.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D005853:Geriatrics; D006801:Humans; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012648:Self Care; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States
keywords: care coordination; care delivery; care quality; patient-centered care; person-centered care