Patient-centred Communication: Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults

Patient-centred Communication: Discourse of In-home Medical Consultations for Older Adults
ISBN-10
1800415907
ISBN-13
9781800415904
Category
Medical
Pages
211
Language
English
Published
2022-08-12
Publisher
Channel View Publications
Author
Kayo Kondo

Description

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing healthcare for ageing populations through an ethnographic approach to physician in-home medical consultations in Tokyo, Japan, alongside interviews with physicians. It focuses on illustrating how linguistic dimensions of person-centred communication work by citing examples of case studies, as well as the sociocultural differences between the US, the UK, Japan and other societies in which person-centred communication models are employed. The author uses her own framework, which takes into account face and politeness theory, and makes recommendations for future training.

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