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Symposium

Social Research, Policy, and Practice

Measuring and Implementing Person-Centered Long-Term Care: Global Perspectives

Friday, November 10, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Location: Room 111

Person-centered care (PCC) is internationally recognized as an essential strategy for achieving high quality care and quality of life for older adults who need long-term care (LTC). Despite international endorsement, our understanding of PCC is largely derived from research and practice in western countries. It is less clear whether PCC practices and benefits are generalizable on a global scale. PCC may vary structurally across healthcare contexts and cultures where values, experiences, and needs of older adults differ. Understanding how to culturally adapt or extend the concept, measurement, and implementation of PCC is needed to better inform care and improve outcomes for a diverse and international population of older adults. The purpose of this symposium is to present theory and research across healthcare settings and from countries across multiple continents to comparatively analyze the cultural implications of PCC concepts and discuss the implications for implementation, measurement, and research. The first presentation will contextualize the concept of PCC from an international perspective, summarizing and comparing what is known about PCC from existing literature. The second presentation will compare barriers and facilitators of PCC implementation during mealtimes in three European countries. The third will highlight variations in PCC definitions from qualitative research conducted with providers in middle- and low-income countries. The fourth presentation will report on the development and implementation of a system of PCC and LTC in Brazil. The final presentation will use secondary data to compare the measurement and LTC needs of family caregivers across the US and China.

This is a Common Data Elements for International Research in Residential Long-term Care Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

Learning Objectives:

  • describe variations in the ways PCC is defined and operationalized internationally.
  • Identify opportunities to extend PCC measurement to be culturally inclusive.

Presentations:

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Person-Centered Care: Setting the International Scene From a Conceptual Perspective

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Tonya J. Roberts, PhD, RN (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Resident Experiences of Person-Centred Care at Mealtimes in Long-Term Residential Care: A Rapid Ethnography

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Megan Davies, PhD (she/her/hers) – Medical Faculty, University of Basel

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Measuring and Implementing Person-Centered, Residential Long-Term Care: Brazilian Context

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Patrick Alexander Wachholz, Md, PhD (he/him/his) – Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Understanding Person-Centered Care for Older People in Six Developing Countries

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Jing Wang, PhD, RN, FAAN – University of New Hampshire

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Assessing Caregiving Support Networks for Persons With Dementia in a Long-Term Care Context in China and the US

    Individual Symposium Abstract First Author: Hanzhang Xu, PhD, RN (she/her/hers) – Duke University