The Implementation of a Model of Person-Centred Practice In Older ...

The implementation of a model of person-centred practice in older person settings
by cultures of empowerment that foster continuous approaches to practice
development”
Programme objectives
1. Coordinate a programme of work that can replicate effective Practice
Development processes in care of older people’s settings.
2. Enable participants/local facilitators and their Directors and managers to
recognise the attributes of person-centred cultures for older people and key
practice development and management interventions needed to achieve the
culture (thus embedding person-centred care within organisations).
3. Develop person-centred cultures in participating practice settings.
4. Systematically measure or evaluate outcomes on practice and for older
people.
5. Further test a model of person-centred practice in long-term
care/rehabilitation settings and develop it as a multi-professional model.
6. Utilise a participant generated data-set to inform the development and
outcomes of person-centred practice (already designed and tested tools will
be used to produce data set).
7. Enable local NMPDU facilitators to work with shared principles, models,
methods and processes in practice development work across older people’s
services.
PROGRAMME METHODOLOGY
The programme drew on numerous principles from different yet complementary
theories and approaches; emancipatory practice development, co-operative inquiry
and a specific person-centred practice framework. Additionally, through the
programmes’ activities another methodology emerged, namely ‘Active Learning’.
Within the emancipatory practice development approach, for the aims of this
programme, particular emphasis was placed on evaluation and on learning. Within
the programme, the active learning methodology was systematically tested refined
and expanded.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE AND PROCESSES
Eighteen residential units for older people were involved in the Older Persons
Services National Practice Development Programme for the development of personcentred
practice. The programme commenced in September 2007. Practice
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