PERSONS IDENTITY
Person-Centered Care
Begins With Knowing the Person
Cherish These Words is built on proven human-centered theories and philosophies that place identity, dignity, relationships, and individual life stories at the heart of quality care. Our platform operationalizes these principles through secure technology-helping caregivers understand the whole person, strengthen relationships, improve communication, and deliver truly person-centered care.
OUR CARE PHILOSOPHY
Know the Person
Understanding life stories, values, routines, preferences, relationships, and experiences creates the foundation for meaningful care.
Build Trust
Trust develops when caregivers understand the individual beyond the diagnosis, creating confidence, comfort, and stronger relationships.
Improve Outcomes
Personalized care reduces anxiety, behavioral challenges, and unnecessary interventions and improves overall quality of life.
Preserve Dignity
Every individual deserves to remain known as a person-not simply a diagnosis.
THE FOUNDATIONS THAT GUIDE OUR MISSION
Carl Rogers’ Humanistic Theory
Carl Rogers believed every individual possesses inherent worth, dignity, and the capacity for growth.
His emphasis on empathy, authenticity, unconditional positive regard, and genuine relationships transformed modern person-centered practice.
Implication for Care
People flourish when they feel understood, respected, heard, and accepted-especially during life’s most vulnerable moments.
Identity Preservation
Identity is the collection of our memories, values, beliefs, routines, relationships, traditions, experiences, preferences, hopes, and life lessons.
When cognitive decline occurs, these pieces of identity become increasingly difficult to communicate, but they remain essential to who someone is.
Cherish These Words ensures this identity remains accessible.
Implication for Care
Preserving identity connects a person’s past with their present and helps guide personalized care into the future.
Kitwood’s Dementia Philosophy
Tom Kitwood transformed dementia care by recognizing that personhood remains intact despite cognitive decline.
He identified six essential psychological needs: Comfort, Identity, Inclusion, Occupation, Attachment, and Love.
His work shifted dementia care from managing symptoms to supporting the whole person.
Implication for Care
Preserving identity and meaningful relationships protects personhood while improving emotional well-being and quality of life.
Trust Theory
Trust grows through knowledge, consistency, communication, competence, and authentic human connection.
When caregivers understand a person’s life experiences, trust develops more naturally.
Greater trust leads to better communication, reduced anxiety, Increased cooperation, Higher engagement, and improved care experiences
Implication for Care
Knowing the person accelerates trust, making care more compassionate and effective.
HOW CHERISH THESE WORDS PUTS THEORY INTO PRACTICE
We transform decades of person-centered research into practical tools that empower families, caregivers, and care organizations’ Your Needs
Capture the Whole Person
Families preserve stories, photographs, values, beliefs, routines, relationships, traditions, favorite music, important memories, preferences, hobbies, and life lessons through text, audio, video, and images.
Organize With Meaning
Information is organized into intuitive categories rather than scattered documents, making it easy to locate important details exactly when caregivers need them.
Inform Person-Centered Care
Care teams receive meaningful insights that improve communication, reduce misunderstandings, personalize interactions, and strengthen relationships.
Improve Outcomes
Knowing the individual leads to: Reduced agitation, Greater cooperation, Better engagement, Increased trust, Higher quality interactions, and more meaningful care experiences
Share With Purpose
Families control who has access to information.
Secure permissions allow caregivers, healthcare providers, family members, and organizations to receive only the information appropriate for their role.
EVIDENCE SUPPORTS THIS APPROACH
Research consistently demonstrates that person-centered care improves outcomes for individuals, caregivers, and healthcare organizations.
Evidence shows that:
• Person-centered care improves quality of life while reducing behavioral symptoms and caregiver stress.
• Life-story interventions increase emotional well-being, self-esteem, engagement, and meaningful social interaction.
• Strong caregiver relationships predict improved communication, trust, cooperation, and satisfaction with care.
• Preserving identity contributes to dignity, purpose, emotional well-being, and continuity of self throughout cognitive decline.
THE OUTCOMES THAT MATTER
For Individuals
Greater dignity, Stronger identity, reduced anxiety, Improved comfort, Better emotional well-being, Greater sense of self
For Caregivers
Better understanding, Increased confidence, reduced stress, Improved communication, Stronger relationships, more effective care
For Healthcare Organizations
Higher engagement, Better care experiences, reduced behavioral challenges, improved person-centered outcomes, Greater staff satisfaction, Better quality metrics
For Families
Peace of mind, Lasting legacy, Stronger intergenerational connections, Confidence that their loved one’s story will never be forgotten, Closing Banner,
