This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the use of patient-/person-centred communication in providing healthcare for ageing populations through an ethnographic approach to physician in-home medical consultations in Tokyo, Japan, alongside interviews with physicians.

It focuses on illustrating how linguistic dimensions of person-centred communication work by citing examples of case studies, as well as the sociocultural differences between the US, the UK, Japan and other societies in which person-centred communication models are employed.

The author uses her own framework, which takes into account face and politeness theory, and makes recommendations for future training.

Format Inbunden Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Multilingual Matters Utgivningsdatum 2022-08-12 ISBN 9781800415881