Exploring Determinants of Compassionate Cancer Care in Older Adults Using Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping.

ABSTRACT: The growing number of older adults with cancer confront practical and organizational limitations that hinder their ability to obtain care that is adapted to their health status, needs, expectations, and life choices. The integration into practice of evidence-based and institutional recommendations for a geriatric approach and person-centered high-quality care remains incomplete. This study uses an action research design to explore stakeholders' perspectives of the challenges involved in translating the established care priorities into a compassionate geriatric approach in oncology and identify promising pathways to improvement. Fifty-three stakeholders participated in focus groups to create cognitive maps representing perceived relationships between concepts related to compassionate care o

SUBMITTER: Tremblay D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12385172 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature