Enhancing Person-Centered Care in Long-Term Care

Long Term Care for Geriatric Health Care Professionals

“…The authors of these articles come not only from the USA but also from Australia, Korea, and Taiwan reflecting a trend for interest in geriatric mental health and long-term care to be found across the globe (Pachana & Laidlaw, 2014;Sadeq & Molinari, 2019). In keeping with a theme of the 2017 issue on long term care (Molinari, 2019) the articles in this series continue to address aspects of care that may ultimately lead to improved quality of life (and death) experiences for those who have depression, serious mental illnesses, pain, and dementia in assisted living facility, nursing home, and hospice settings. This series of articles demonstrates that there are multiple contexts in long-term care delivery encompassing individual, family, treatment team and health care system perspectives.…”