DISCUSSION
Applying person‑centred care in acute care settings – eight dimensions for discussion.
Adopting person‑centred approach to care for older people in acute settings begins with trying to establish a philosophy of care that puts the older person’s experiences at centre stage. This can then be merged with gold standard clinical guidelines and best practice approaches to the assessment and maintenance of health among older people in acute hospital settings (Nay and Garratt 2004). The following aspects have been extracted from the literature as making up the cornerstones of person‑centred care for older people, and are presented to illustrate how acute hospitals can better meet the needs of older people and family members.