Studies show that people often do not have opportunities to engage in health-related decision-making with their health-care providers. For people experiencing health issues and entering the health ...

Person-centered care (also known as patient-centered care) is the philosophy of giving power back to patients and putting them "at the center" of care. I'm also a person who uses the health-care ...

Are there distinguishing characteristics between the terminology used in health care delivery and quality improvement of person-directed care, person-centered care, and/or patient-directed care? The ...

Person-centered therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps people take responsibility for their lives and solve problems on their own. Person-centered therapy was founded by Carl Rogers in the ...

Precision medicine should target the person and not only the tumor. Patients' supportive care needs deserve the same attention and focus as diagnostics, therapeutics, and molecular biology. A ...

On March 23, 2010, Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as "The Affordable Care Act," or ACA. In 2009, in anticipation of it, Katherine Power, then ...

We all deserve high-quality hearing care. But how do we know if we are receiving it? In recent years, healthcare has been moving toward a model called person-centered care—an approach that prioritizes ...

Investment in nurse leadership and workforce wellbeing results in measurable benefits for the workplace and for patients, according to a new report from a nursing charity. It said that nurses who had ...

Based in Tampa, Florida, Virginia Pelley is a former women's magazine editor who has written health and fitness content for Men's Journal, Cosmopolitan magazine, the Chicago Tribune, ...