The idea of ​​organising healthcare around a person, their story and world of life : A study about person-centred care translated by actors

Sammanfattning: I deal with translations of the idea of person-centred care in this paper. The idea has spread, and it is seen as the contemporary solution to national and international healthcare issues. Scandinavian neo-institutionalism focuses on alteration through processing of ideas regarding context and variation between organisations. That makes the process of translating ideas important. Although there are many Swedish literature written about person-centred care, there are few studies that have examined practice and perceived reality. The purpose of this paper is to gain knowledge about how person-centred care is perceived and translated from words to actions in an organisation that has adopted the concept. The theoretical framework has been grounded in translation, which begins with an understanding of how ideas or concepts can be reproduced, from words to actions. The methodology for handling translations of person-centred care is based on a social construction perspective, combined with phenomenology and this combination of perspectives might lead to gaining a deeper understanding of person-centred care. I use hermeneutic method to analyse and interpret the statements or the story told by my selected actors. The result shows that among the respondents, person-centred care is something desirable, appealing, and necessary to do. On an overall level, the idea remains the same, while when it lands on the unit level and must be interpreted in practical action, the focus ends up on different things based on the respondents' different everyday lives. Translation as a phenomenon leads to the idea being interpreted and used in different and varying ways by different individuals and different entities. This has resulted to the idea being spread through actors who had an interest in it.