The Compass Rose in Care

^*"A compass rose

is a diagram of

directions that is located

on every map or globe."

individual

|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

|

group

The Health Career rose

is a diagram,
a conceptual map of care 

that can be located within every 

care plan and health record?

^*Source: https://slideplayer.com/slide/5847408/

Drawing a Care Map

individual

|

INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

|

group

I contacted the Atlas of Caregiving and Rajiv Mehta replied:

We have found that the value to individuals has come not only from the final artifact (the diagram), but even more from the thinking that goes into its creation (if the person draws his own), and the conversations and reflections sparked by discussing the CareMap with others. This recent news article gives some insight into this: Caregivers Draw Support By Mapping Their Relationships. 

Of course, the point I’m making is true for any graph, diagram, etc.!

Also, your readers would likely appreciate a link to this page, which has more information on drawing a CareMap: 

https://atlasofcaregiving.com/drawing-using-caremap/

Rajiv Mehta
CEO, Atlas of Caregiving (www.atlasofcaregiving.com)
Board member, Family Caregiver Alliance (www.caregiver.org)
Co-organizer, Quantified Self (www.quantifiedself.com)

Grammar in Visual Language

I've just watched a Vizthink podcast which I found on Neil Cohn's blog 'The Visual Linguist':

What qualifies as visual language anyway?

As usual - click when running - and the podcast will fill the screen. In addition to the discussion and slides there are many other sources to explore. A news map example had me thinking about Hodges' model and problems within the four care domains. If in addition to clinical staff, managers and policy makers really do want to see evidence of person-centred care and carer's views being taken into account; then how fine-grained should the care map be?

(Or is it just a tick in 'a' box?)

News is one thing, but is there an optimum level for care? Plus of course problems are not the only fruit - there are strengths too...