My wife, Sylvia Cox, who has died of a brain tumour aged 66, was a pioneering figure in the development of person-centred approaches to the care of people with dementia and other complex needs.
For example, we found differential patterns in the development of person-occupation fit in apprentices (Nägele and Neuenschwander 2015).
Person-centred web-based support is a new area and few studies focus on how web-based interventions can contribute to the development of person-centred care.
Important areas for research are the use and development of person schemas and their impact on supervisor behaviour towards trainees, feedback processes and subsequent performance evaluations.
Treating patients as persons might also entail positively enabling the development of person-al capabilities and in ways that bestow significant ethical standing upon patients in whom those person-al capabilities are not all always and obviously manifest.
High-quality care provision for older people is a strategic priority, and points to the need for appropriate workforce development interventions to nurture and support the development of person-centred care across health and social care settings.
The project we describe focuses on four main aspects of the development of person-centred web support: (1) the use of people's experiences, (2) the role of theories, (3) the evaluation of the effects, and (4) the development of a person-centred model.
Further, the development of person-centred management and treatment plans following timely diagnosis, and preparations for accommodating expected changes in health and functioning, are informed by knowledge about dementia and its trajectory of decline among those providing care.
We will pursue this in the light of participatory design principles, and the main questions will consider how people's experiences are materialized in the development of person-centred web support and how their experiences should be materialized.
Transport of patients with relevant travel history and development of illness (persons under investigation) is also included.
