European Society of Person Centered Healthcare (ESPCH6) Sixth Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony
Mosaic will be one of the keynote Lectures:
‘Intrinsic capacity and “healthy” aging: where do the domains of the clinical, the non-clinical, the person, and the social and emotional and community intersect? On the need to consider holistic, empathic processing within general needs/falls risks assessment in community-based home care’.
Key themes at ESPCH6 will include the impact of Digital Health Revolution/Al/caring robots on the PCC, the latest thinking on social prescribing as a recent addition to the PCC armoury, the most recent developments in decision-making strategies, and the new concepts of health and illness which are emerging as a consequence of the continuing evolution of the person-centered clinical method.
About the Presentation
In a 2017 paper, “Operationalising the Concept of Intrinsic Capacity in Clinical Settings”, the WHO stated that Intrinsic Capacity “is a composite of all the physical and mental attributes on which an individual can draw”, that healthy ageing “depends upon an individuals’ Intrinsic Capacity, their environment and the interactions between the two.” Studies have found that subjective successful ageing is often independent of disability and chronic physical illness.
Addressing healthy ageing means we must move beyond the clinical and the support of functional abilities to address the wider social and emotional components of self and the relationship of self with environment.
This presentation addresses empathic person centered processes, interfaces and interactions at the point at which the domains of the clinical, non-clinical supports, the person and community intersect. These are most evident in the general needs’ assessment in community settings and the parallel processes of falls risks assessment and their conceptualisation. Domains have both environment and scope and it is the specific attributes of each that are relevant when conceptualising and realizing person centered care.
Many standard assessment processes lend the appearance of “viewing windows” where the person is measured and assessed, and outcomes rendered with respect to their deficits. Planning for intrinsic capacity requires, over and above clinical baselines, that we know the person, their preferences, life history, capacities and environments.
The presentation addresses empathy, its social and neurological underpinnings as important components of person centered processes. According to Decety (2015), empathy is “an interpersonal communication system that elicits response from others, helps to determine priorities within relationships, and holds people together in social groups”.
As we develop person centered care we also realize that the wider model is dependent on assets, environments and interactions within our communities that lie beyond the immediate domains of clinical and non-clinical supports.