Implementing Person-Centered Care into a Community Setting

This chapter is about whether the combined use of distributed leadership (DL) and a community recovery model (CRM) could help with the implementation of person-centered care (PCC) to a community setting. This chapter does not provide a detailed account of either PCC, DL or a CRM given that material on these individual concepts is already available in extant literature. Rather, its aim is twofold. Firstly, to summarize the main tenets of PCC, DL and a CRM and secondly, to report similarities between these concepts and on this basis suggest tentatively the combined use of DL and a CRM to support the implementation of PCC into a community health setting. To answer the first aim, this chapter provides overviews of research literature about the three concepts. Given the lack of research evidence about the combined use of DL and a CRM for implementing PCC, literature for each of the three concepts was examined for similarities, which is considered a suitable approach for merging ideas from diverse concepts. Additionally, this chapter provides an example of a research study that combined the use of a person-centered approach and a CRM. Although this study did not set out to test the use of DL, aspects of DL emerged during the data collection phase. Any suggestion in this chapter about the combined use of DL and a CRM to support the implementation of PCC into a community setting is tentative, given the lack of research evidence to support this. However, researchers may wish to examine empirically the utility of the idea for applications within the context of their personal practices. This chapter concludes by providing information in tabular format that may be useful for those who wish to use DL, a CRM and the Gothenburg Model of PCC.