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    Kitwood's Revolutionary Person-Centered Dementia Care Approach

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    Exploring Tom Kitwood's groundbreaking framework that preserves personhood in dementia care by focusing on relationships and psychological needs rather than just cognitive decline.

    Kitwood's Revolutionary Person-Centered Dementia Care Approach

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    Personhood is a standing or status that is bestowed upon one human being, by others, in the context of relationship and social being. It isn't something you just have—it's something that emerges through relationships.

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    Towards a Theory of Dementia Care: Personhood and Well-being
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    https://scispace.com/papers/towards-a-theory-of-dementia-care-personhood-and-well-being-et3szx7lpw
    (PDF) Personhood and dementia: Revisiting Tom Kitwood's ideas
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    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229794080_Personhood_and_dementia_Revisiting_Tom_Kitwood's_ideas
    Person-centred care for people with dementia: Kitwood reconsidered
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    http://journals.rcni.com/nursing-standard/personcentred-care-for-people-with-dementia-kitwood-reconsidered-ns.30.7.46.s47
    A conceptual framework based on Tom Kitwood's model of needs
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    Mapping empirical experiences of Tom Kitwood's framework of ...
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    Effectiveness of person-centered care on people with dementia
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    Core Dialog: Personhood as Social Construction

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