The opposite of person-centered planning is system-centered or traditional care planning.
System-centered planning (traditional-care planning) is support services that are predetermined and designed based on a system perspective, though individual plans still exist.
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While system-centered approaches may work well for short-term interventions such as smoking cessation, weight loss, learning a new language, or how to play a sport, system-centered approaches to planning where one lives or does during the day, can be very detrimental to the person who is the focus of the planning.
Think about your own life – would you want to be told where to live, if you could work and where, or if you would be sent to a care facility during the day?