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Can one size fit all?
— translating models of cancer survivorship care for older patients | | Author(s) | Roxanne E Jensen, Leigh Anne Faul, Waddah B Al-Refaie, Arnold L Potosky |
| Journal title | Aging Health, vol 9, no 4, August 2013 |
| Publisher | Future Medicine, August 2013 |
| Pages | pp 355-358 |
| Source | www.futuremedicine.com |
| Keywords | Cancer ; Convalescence ; Rehabilitation ; Ageing process ; Ill health ; Chronic illness ; Therapeutics ; Long term. |
| Annotation | Although long-term cancer survival has improved over the years, the number of older survivors is projected to grow considerably over the next 10 years, a trend which is likely to increase Medicare costs and workforce shortages in both geriatrics in oncology. Providing comprehensive survivorship care to older adults can be challenging as advancing age is associated with increasing functional dependency, increased comorbidity and declining physiologic reserve. Older cancer patients present an increased risk of treatment-related toxicity and adverse drug reactions compared with younger survivors. Any survivorship care model for the older adult must address the need for excellent communication and coordination between specialists around the comanagement of common chronic conditions, eg heart disease, diabetes and arthritis. Given the difficulties of managing multiple chronic diseases and heterogeneity among older adults, a 'one size fits all' model to deliver cancer survivorship care may be impractical. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130823265 A |
| Classmark | CK: LNC: LM: BG: CH: CI: LL: 4Q |
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