CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 48Palliative and Oncologic CarePalliative Care and End-of-Life IssuesCancer survivorship and care

A coping and communication support intervention tailored to older patients diagnosed with late-stage cancer

Open access
Rose, J H·2008·Clinical Interventions in Aging
DOI 10.2147/cia.s1262PMC PMC2544372
Open this paper in CoChat — free accountOpen PDF

Abstract

As our society ages, increasing numbers of older Americans will be diagnosed and eventually will die of cancer. To date, psycho-oncology interventions for advanced cancer patients have been more successful in reaching younger adult age groups and generally have not been designed to respond to the unique needs and preferences of older patients. Theories and research on successful aging (Baltes and Baltes 1990; Baltes 1997), health information processing style (Miller 1995; Miller et al 2001) and non-directive client-centered therapy (Rogers 1951, 1967), have guided the development of a coping and communication support (CCS) intervention. Key components of this age-sensitive and tailored intervention are described, including problem domains addressed, intervention strategies used and the role of the CCS practitioner. Age group comparisons in frequency of contact, problems raised and intervention strategies used during the first six weeks of follow up indicate that older patients were similar to middle-aged patients in their level of engagement, problems faced and intervention strategies used. Middle-aged patients were more likely to have problems communicating with family members at intervention start up and practical problems as well in follow up contacts. This is the first intervention study specifically designed to be age sensitive and to examine age differences in engagement from the early treatment phase for late-stage cancer through end of life. This tailored intervention is expected to positively affect patients' quality of care and quality of life over time.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.2147/cia.s1262

Cites

129 of 129 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Many palliative care interventions address a single dimension of palliative care or focus on patients in general rather than anxious and depressed patients most in need of support.

    “Many palliative care interventions address a single dimension of palliative care – e.g., ACP directive completion or sense of life meaning – or focus on patients in general rather than the anxious and depressed patients most in need of support [5, 13–15].”

    From A randomized controlled trial of a multi-modal palliative care intervention to promote advance care planning and psychological well-being among adults with advanced cancer: study protocol. (2022) · cites this paper as [13]

    The Introduction’s “Psycho-oncology interventions for advanced cancer patients” section says existing interventions primarily address emotional and physical distress and coping, while communication is an additional important goal. The “Aging and psycho-oncology interventions” section explains why anxiety and depression warrant attention. Neither passage establishes that many interventions focus on patients in general rather than anxious or depressed patients, or that the latter are the patients most in need of support. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.79)

    Experimental — accuracy not yet measured

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

5 of the 134 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Research works printed but not linked: 11

  1. Binstock RH Post SG Binstock RH Post SG Old age and the rationing of health care Too old for health care? 1991 Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 1 12
  2. Bucher JA Houts PS Glajchen M Holland JC Telephone counseling Psycho-oncology 1998 New York Oxford University Press 758 66
  3. Folkman S Greer S Promoting psychological well-being in the face of serious illness: When theory, research and practice inform each other Psychooncoloogy 2000 9 11 19 10668055
  4. Ganz PA Interaction between the physician and the older patientThe oncologist’s perspective Cancer 1997 80 1270 2 9317186
  5. Loscalzo M Brintzenhofeszoc K Holland JC Brief crisis counseling Psycho-oncology 1998 New York Oxford University Press 662 75
  6. Moos RH Schaefer JA Moos RH The crisis of physical illness: an overview and conceptual approach Coping with physical illness: Vol. 2. New Perspectives 1987 New York Plenum 3 25
  7. National Comprehensive Cancer Network, [NCCN] Practice guidelines for the management of psychosocial distress Oncology 1999 13 113 47 10370925
  8. Rogers CR The therapeutic relationship and its impact 1967 Madison University of Wisconsin Press
  9. Rose JH Haug M Book review: communication and the cancer patient: Information and truth J Ethics Law Aging 1999 5 71 3
  10. Schrag D Using navigators to improve care of underserved patients: current practices and approaches Cancer 2005 104 848 55 16010658
  11. Schnoll RA Harlow LL Stolbach LL A structural model of the relationships among stage of disease, age, coping, and psychological adjustment in women with breast cancer Psychooncology 1998 7 69 77 9589505

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Rose, J. H.
Affiliations
MetroHealth Medical Center (US)
Corresponding author
Rose, J H
Venue
Clinical Interventions in Aging
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2008-03
Volume
Volume 3
Issue
1
Pages
77-95
ISSN
  • 1176-9092 (ISSN-L)
  • 1178-1998
DOI
10.2147/cia.s1262
PMC
PMC2544372
OpenAlex
W1921555228
Cited by
48
References
134
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 2
FWCI
0.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Clinical Interventions in Aging (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Dove Medical Press (Taylor and Francis Group) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R01CA102828, R01-CA10282)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative and Oncologic Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
Keywords
elderly cancer patients, late-stage cancer, psycho-oncology, successful aging, family communication, end-of-life care, quality of life
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Aged, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Medical Oncology, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Patient Care Team, Patient Education as Topic, Problem Solving, Quality of Health Care, Social Support, Stress, Psychological, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic, Caregivers, Internet

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review