Kitwood's Person Centered Care

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Person Centered Care (PCC) is an ethical approach to caring for persons living and dying with dementia, and evaluates the care being delivered, through the eyes of the person receiving that care.

Kitwood's Person Centered Care is a holistic and comprehensive delivery care system that meets each individual's core needs of Love, Identity, Comfort, Inclusion, Attachment and Occupation, acknowledges and accepts each resident as a whole person, and provides moral and ethical development of care staff.

Kitwood's Person Center Care model is research and outcomes based, and measured by Dementia Care Mapping.

Quality of Life and success of PCC is measured by Dementia Care Mapping which documents and tracks each resident's experience of well and ill being over time through direct observation of resident's behavior without staff interpretation.

Core Beliefs & Principals

V + I + P + S = Person Centered Care

V = Value the person regardless of level of dementia
I = Treat people as individuals
P = Look at the world from the person's perspective
S = Provide a positive social environment in which a person can experience well-being to end of life.

Dawn Brooker, Bradford Dementia Group, revised 2007