Collaboration between home care staff, leaders and care partners of older people with mental health problems: a focus on personhood.

There seems to be a lack of facilitation of collaborative relationships through all levels of the home care organisation. The interactions between care partners and home care staff sometimes appear to produce low or negative levels of emotional energy, and situations where the personhood of neither of them is respected occurs. Paying attention to the four modes of being as a framework for understanding personhood creates the foundation for a person-centred approach that enhances the potential of creating stronger partnership in care relationships.