Why Older Adults Make More Immediate Treatment Decisions About Cancer Than Younger Adults

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 505-524

  Meyer, Bonnie J F ^a   Talbot, Andrew P ^a   Ranalli, Carlee ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging and medical decision making; cancer decision making across the life span; everyday problem solving and aging; immediate versus deferred treatment decisions for cancer and aging; timing of decisions for treatments of breast and prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PENNSYLVANIA; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34247251135     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.505     Document Type: Article

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