Advances and Perspectives in Person-Centered Care for People Living with Chronic and Long-Term Conditions

People living with chronic and long-term conditions increasingly navigate health and care systems that were designed around acute, episodic illness rather than sustained relationships, continuity, and the realities of daily life. As the global burden of chronic conditions grows, the need to organize care around the values, expectations, and lived experiences of people, their families, and communities has never been more pressing. Person-, people-, and patient-centered approaches offer a powerful lens for rethinking how systems respond to this challenge, yet important questions remain about how these concepts are understood, operationalized, measured, and sustained across diverse settings.This Research Topic aims to advance the conceptual, theoretical, and practical understanding of person-centered care for people living with chronic and long-term conditions. We seek contributions that move beyond descriptive accounts to explicitly engage with person-, people-, or patient-centered concepts, frameworks, and theories, including critical examination of their meanings, assumptions, and applications. This includes relational and human caring traditions that foreground the quality, continuity, and reciprocity of relationships between people, families, and professionals as a determinant of person-centered care. We are particularly interested in work that connects the experiences of people living with chronic conditions to the resources, cultures, and structures of health and care systems, and that illuminates how these systems can be redesigned to enable person-centeredness to be realized in practice.We welcome submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:• Conceptual and theoretical contributions to person-, people-, or patient-centered care in the context of chronic and long-term conditions, including the development, critique, or refinement of models and frameworks• Implementation and operationalization of person-centered models in real-world services, systems, and pathways for chronic care• Experiences and outcomes of care for people living with chronic conditions, their families, carers, and communities• Self-management, peer support, and community-enabled approaches informed by person-centered concepts and theories• Care coordination, continuity, networks, and system redesign to improve flow and care transitions across the chronic-condition journey• Relationships, communication, and shared decision-making between people, families, and professionals over the long term• Relational and human caring approaches to chronic care, including compassion, presence, dignity, and the therapeutic quality of relationships between people, families, and professionals• Co-production, advocacy, and the involvement of patients and citizens in shaping organizations, policy, and practice change• Measurement and evaluation of person-centered care, including PROMs, PREMs, capability measures, and realist, process, or outcome evaluation• Digital, data-enabled, and AI-enabled innovations, including artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, that enhance systems and experiences of care for people living with chronic conditions• Culture change, workforce development, and education to build and sustain person-centered practice capabilities and healthcare culturesThe Research Topic encourages a wide range of research methods, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and creative methodologies. We especially welcome submissions that explore how different dimensions of health systems enable person-centered care to be realized, and that align with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities).Submissions should explicitly draw upon person-, people-, or patient-centered concepts, models, or frameworks and should offer detailed, in-depth insight into the practices, interactions, policies, influences, and interventions that shape patient experiences, outcomes, and the sustainability of person-centered health systems. Manuscripts that are primarily descriptive with limited conceptual framing, weak methodological rigor, or minimal contribution to advancing person-centered theory or practice are likely to be considered out of scope. Topic editors: Nizar Alsubahi, LEIRE AMBROSIO, Eunyoung Suh, Ruth Cornick Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/86371/advances-and-perspectives-in-person-centered-care-for-people-living-with-chronic-and-long-term-conditions