Practical Implementation of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment to Optimise Care for Older Adults with Cancer

Laura Tack; Patricia Schofield; Tom Boterberg; Rebecca Chandler; Christopher N Parris; Philip R Debruyne

doi:10.3390/geriatrics8010018

Practical Implementation of the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment to Optimise Care for Older Adults with Cancer

Geriatrics (Basel). 2023 Jan 23;8(1):18. doi: 10.3390/geriatrics8010018.

Authors

Laura Tack^{1

2}, Patricia Schofield³, Tom Boterberg², Rebecca Chandler⁴, Christopher N Parris⁵, Philip R Debruyne^{1

3

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Oncology, Kortrijk Cancer Centre, General Hospital Groeninge, 8500 Kortrijk, Belgium.
² Department of Human Structure and Repair, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
³ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK.
⁴ School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care, Chelmsford CM1 1SQ, UK.
⁵ Medical Technology Research Centre (MTRC), School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK.

Abstract

Whilst cancer remains a very serious health problem at any stage, cancer combined with increasing age creates an even more challenging situation for health care providers [...].

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Editorial