Patient-centred Communication

<p>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.</p>