Program for Person-Centered Living Systems of Care

Mission

The Program for Person-Centered Living Systems of Care is an academic initiative within the Geriatric Center at Penn State that seeks to:

• develop an interprofessional theory and model for the new field of person-centered living systems of care
• conduct research on topics related to person-centered care (PCC)
• infuse PCC health care service delivery across the spectrum of services (acute to post-acute to community based)

Goals

• Develop a new integrative model of person-centered living systems of care
• Develop infrastructure and methodologies for conducting PCC research
• Conduct applied research on PCC topics
• Apply best practices to innovative health delivery systems
• Inform curriculum to educate an interprofessional workforce of future and current care providers
• Influence policy around delivery of health care services in rural/urban, acute, post-acute, and community-based care settings

Sponsors

Polisher Research Institute of the Madlyn and Leonard Abramson Center for Jewish Life

Donald Ford

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