Person-first and Destigmatizing Language

[Sandra Holdsworth]

Language is important, how we as #PatientPartners, Researchers, Healthcare works, etc., refer to patients its important to put what the patient has compared to what the person is. Please read the document below and share this knowledge as you continue to collaborate with researchers in healthcare work.

"Person-first language is a way to emphasize the person and view the disorder, disease, condition, or disability as only one part of the whole person. Describe what the person “has” rather than what the person “is.” Person-first language avoids using labels or adjectives to define someone, e.g., a person with diabetes not a diabetic; or person with cancer not cancer patient; or a person with bipolar disorder not a person who is bipolar."

https://www.nih.gov/nih-style-guide/person-first-destigmatizing-language

[Chris Johnston]

@Sandra-Holdsworth Thanks for sharing Sandra - much appreciated

[Alifa Khan]

@Sandra-Holdsworth stellar share!