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Experience of Time and Subjective Age When Facing a Limited Lifetime: The Case of Older Adults with Advanced Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We addressed two questions: (1) Does advanced cancer in later life affect a person's awareness of time and their subjective age? (2) Are awareness of time and subjective age associated with distress, perceived quality of life, and depression?

Methods

We assessed patients suffering terminal cancer (OAC, n = 91) and older adults free of any life-threatening disease (OA, n = 89), all subjects being aged 50 years or older.

Results

Older adults with advanced cancer perceived time more strongly as being a finite resource and felt significantly older than OA controls. Feeling younger was meaningfully related with better quality of life and less distress. In the OA group, feeling younger was also associated to reduced depression. Perceiving time as a finite resource was related to higher quality of life in the OA group.

Discussion

Major indicators of an older person's awareness of time and subjective aging differ between those being confronted with advanced cancer versus controls.

SUBMITTER: Laryionava K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9446453 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Experience of Time and Subjective Age When Facing a Limited Lifetime: The Case of Older Adults with Advanced Cancer.

Laryionava Katsiaryna K Schönstein Anton A Heußner Pia P Hiddemann Wolfgang W Winkler Eva C EC Wahl Hans-Werner HW

Journal of aging and health 20211230 4-5

<h4>Objectives</h4>We addressed two questions: (1) Does advanced cancer in later life affect a person's awareness of time and their subjective age? (2) Are awareness of time and subjective age associated with distress, perceived quality of life, and depression?<h4>Methods</h4>We assessed patients suffering terminal cancer (OAC, <i>n</i> = 91) and older adults free of any life-threatening disease (OA, <i>n</i> = 89), all subjects being aged 50 years or older.<h4>Results</h4>Older adults with adva ...[more]

PMID: 34967672

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Experience of Time and Subjective Age When Facing a Limited Lifetime: The Case of Older Adults with Advanced Cancer.

Objectives

Methods

Results

Discussion

Publications

Experience of Time and Subjective Age When Facing a Limited Lifetime: The Case of Older Adults with Advanced Cancer.

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