Reenacted Case Scenarios for Undergraduate Healthcare Students to Illustrate Person-Centered Care in Dementia

Abstract

Healthcare practitioners have suggested that interpreting person-centered care for people who have dementia to undergraduate students requires guidance in practical application. This article describes the production of a written and digital interdisciplinary educational resource for tertiary students. It uses real-life case scenarios provided by healthcare practitioners to illustrate person-centered care in practice with people who have dementia. The resource provides students with the theoretical underpinning of person-centered care and dementia as well as reflective questions that relate to the reenacted case scenarios to guide their application of this theory in practice.

This project was supported by the South Australian and Northern Territory Dementia Training Study Centre (an Australian Government Initiative) and the Nurses Memorial Foundation of South Australia, Inc. We would also like to acknowledge the participants in this project, especially the healthcare practitioners who submitted case studies from their practice.