Source Notes
Source Notes: Humanitude and Welfare Policy
An intermediate note for organizing research material, evidence links, issue structure, and inclusion decisions before the reader-facing article is written.
Scope
This note treats Humanitude as a welfare-policy implementation question, not as a general care slogan. The review checked method descriptions, practice studies, evidence limits, and dementia or long-term-care policy sources in Japan, France, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Singapore, WHO, and OECD contexts.
Source Choices
- Humanitude International / Humanitude France: used to describe gaze, speech, touch, and verticality. Claims about impact were not treated as policy evidence.
- WHO: used as the international public-health baseline for dementia policy.
- Japan: MHLW dementia law and basic plan were used because they provide the policy vocabulary of voice, dignity, decision-making support, and community life.
- France: the 2025-2030 national neurodegenerative-disease strategy was used to show the policy context in the method’s country of origin.
- Portugal: the 2018 dementia strategy and 2026 governance update were used because Portuguese implementation studies connect Humanitude to continuing care.
- United Kingdom: NICE NG97 was used as a person-centred-care benchmark.
- Singapore: MOH, AIC, and DementiaHub sources were used because Singapore links dementia policy, community support, caregiver information, and Humanitude materials.
Evidence Reading
The evidence base is positive but still limited. The scoping review reports possible gains in agitation, psychological symptoms, well-being, communication, empathy, job satisfaction, and burnout. Many studies use short, single-site, pre-post, or quasi-experimental designs. The article therefore avoids presenting Humanitude as proven cost-saving policy and frames adoption as measured implementation.