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2. Personalized medicine - Wikipedia

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   The concepts of personalised medicine can be applied to new and transformative approaches to health care. Personalised health care is based on the dynamics of systems biology and uses predictive tools to evaluate health risks and to design personalised health plans to help patients mitigate risks, prevent disease and to treat it with precision ...

3. Person-centred planning - Wikipedia

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   Person-centred planning (PCP) is a set of approaches designed to assist an individual to plan their life and supports. [1] It is most often used for life planning with people with learning and developmental disabilities, though recently it has been advocated as a method of planning personalised support with many other sections of society who find themselves disempowered by traditional methods ...

4. Advance care planning - Wikipedia

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   Advance care planning. Advance care planning is a process that enables individuals with decisional mental capacity to make plans about their future health care. [1] Advance care plans provide direction to healthcare professionals when a person is not in a position to make and/or communicate their own healthcare choices.

5. Person-centered care - Wikipedia

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   In health care, person-centered care is a practice in which patients actively participate in their own medical treatment in close cooperation with their health professionals. Sometimes, relatives may be involved in the creation of the patient’s health plan. [1] The person-centered model of health care is used both for in and outpatient ...

6. Activities of daily living - Wikipedia

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   Activities of daily living (ADLs) is a term used in healthcare to refer to an individual's daily self-care activities. Health professionals often use a person's ability or inability to perform ADLs as a measure of their functional status. The concept of ADLs was originally proposed in the 1950s by Sidney Katz and his team at the Benjamin Rose ...

7. Personal care products - Wikipedia

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   Personal care products. Personal care products are consumer products which are applied on various external parts of the body such as skin, hair, nails, lips, external genital and anal areas, as well as teeth and mucous membrane of the oral cavity, in order to make them clean, protect them from harmful germs and keep them in good condition.