Daniel Lombard

1 Introduction Person-centred care has gained widespread prominence as a policy concept in recent decades. Strategies promulgating person-centred care rely on a deceptively simple assumption: that quality of care is raised when services are centred on the person receiving them (Edvardsson, Fetherstonhaugh, and Nay 2010). Social equality charities have welcomed shifts towards individualism, which represent victories for human rights campaigns (Elder-Woodward 2013).

1 Introduction Person-centred care has gained widespread prominence as a policy concept in recent decades. Strategies promulgating person-centred care rely on a deceptively simple assumption: that quality of care is raised when services are centred on the person receiving them (Edvardsson, Fetherstonhaugh, and Nay 2010). Social equality charities have welcomed shifts towards individualism, which represent victories for human rights campaigns (Elder-Woodward 2013).

Updated: May 25, 2018: JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations.