Personalised care is determining the biological age, the pace somebody ages, and personalized interventions to slow down the ageing process and therewith the onset of age-related diseases will revolutionize health care.

Personalised medicine is an emphasis of much of my neurodegenerative disease research involving fluid biomarkers, multimodal neuroimaging and neurogenetics in population cohorts such as the Rush Memory and Aging Project, the Swedish BioFinder project, the Alzheimer’s disease Neuroimaging Initiative, the Healthy Brain Project, and AIBL.

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Personalised medicine involves tailoring interventions and care to the needs and preferences and/or goals of the older person. It means understanding the environmental, personal and psychosocial context of the person as this will influence their capacity to take up and/or access interventions and recommendations.

What does personalised medicine look like in healthy brain aging and cognitive disorders? It means the identification of risk factors for dementia and the development of individualised plans to maintain brain health. It means the identification of accurate biomarkers for early dementia diagnosis and the development of novel treatments, both drug and lifestyle modification, to prevent neurodegeneration. It means supporting patients and their communities throughout the dementia journey.

Personalised care is the multi-dimensional assessment of the patient to identify specific risk factors and co-morbidities aimed to design a tailored care plan that addresses the specific needs and goals of the individual.

Personalised medicine takes into account the illness experience as well as the bio-medical issues.  It requires a partnership between the clinicians and the person, bringing together the medical knowledge with the person's knowledge of what is important to them.  It evaluates the medical realities of the person's health issues, which are then considered by the person in the context of their own preferences and values, resulting in a management plan that is well-understood and to which the person consents.

Personalised care is about what matters to the client; it is where they have choice and control in relation to how their care is administered, organised and received. Personalised care is also about developing and maintaining relationships between clients, their health professionals and the health system.

Personalised care means working with patients to identify their wants, needs and preferences with respect to planning and delivery of healthcare. It also means delivering this care to optimise patient outcomes. 

Personalised care is the multi-dimensional assessment of the patient to identify specific risk factors and co-morbidities aimed to design a tailored care plan that addresses the specific needs and goals of the individual.

Personalised nursing involves tailoring interventions and care to the needs and preferences and/or goals of the older person. It means understanding the environmental, personal and psychosocial context of the person as this will influence their capacity to take up and/or access interventions and recommendations.

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Personalised medicine in my area of expertise means progressing with research to the point where consumers can receive evidence-based, but individualised interventions to effectively improve their mental and cognitive health and with this their quality of life. This approach needs to take into account personal preferences in regards to behaviour change, genetic and biological factors as well as cultural aspects.

What does personalised care mean to me as a consumer?

Being able to make informed decisions about my own care.

Being able to access quality advice from a GP who I respect and other experts in their fields.

A personalised approach to medicine and care for the ageing recognises that the required growth in Australia’s aged care workforce to meet the increasing and evolving care needs, wants and expectations of older people, requires evidence-informed: workforce planning, financial planning, service delivery models, and workspace design planning principles and initiatives that will inspire and inform the recruitment, preparation, up-skilling and retaining the next generation of the aged care workforce. 

Personalised medicine will allow early delivery of tailored interventions based on a person’s risk of developing diseases, the rate of biological aging and rate of progression of current health conditions.  This will enable people to optimise their health independence and quality of life as they age.

Personalised medicine in this field is about patient-centred care; tailoring treatment to individuals and involving their significant others to maximise benefits.

Personalised medicine is the ability to look at patient on an individual basis to allow for more accurate identification of risk factors and individualised modification to achieve healthy ageing.

Personalised health care places the patient at the centre of care delivery. It recognises that optimal outcomes are achieved through multidisciplinary partnerships that consider the physical, emotional, social and environmental determinants of health. By extension, personalised eye health care recognises that eye health impacts and is impacted by other aspects of health. Many of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness are age-related and the loss of vision can profoundly impact self-care and the quality of life. Advances in cell and gene technologies mean that there are now effective treatments for eye diseases that were previously untreatable. Similarly, innovative digital technologies are enabling remote eye health assessments increasing access and convenience for patients. 

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For me, personalised medicine involves individualised assessment of health-related strengths and hazards,educating people about their prognoses and treatment options based on these, and undertaking shared decision-making based on their individual situation, preferences and values.

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