In their accompanying article on assessment of preferences and priorities of both
community-dwelling and institutionalized elders, Abbott et al
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have compiled a practical “best-of” list of important quality-of-life determinants
that we clinicians can use in our daily work. The notion of person-centered care has
been a welcome guiding principle in general medical practice, and specifically in
geriatrics and long-term care, for quite some time. In fact, a PubMed search reveals
the notion of person-centered (as differentiated from patient-centered) care first
mentioned almost 50 years ago in the nursing literature.
2
In the 1980s, most of the literature invoking person-centered care related to mental
health treatment. When Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) implementation began
in 1990, more attention was turned to the rights of nursing home residents. But in
the 1990s literature, the term person-centered care was mainly expanded to include
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