Living and dying with incurable cancer: a qualitative study on older patients’ life values and healthcare professionals’ responsivity

Living and dying with incurable cancer: a qualitative study on older patients’ life values and healthcare professionals’ responsivity

Abstract Background In ageing Western societies, many older persons live with and die from cancer. Despite that present-day healthcare aims to be patient-centered, scientific literature has little knowledge to offer about how cancer and its treatment impact older persons’ various outlooks on life an...

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Main Authors: Jelle L. P. van Gurp, Anne Ebenau, Simone van der Burg, Jeroen Hasselaar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-07-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
Subjects:
Advanced cancer
Older persons
Palliative care
Life values
Patient outlooks on life
Patient perspective
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12904-020-00618-w

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