| Abstract: |
briefly outline the psychiatric issues found in elderly cancer patients and some of the [psychotherapeutic] interventions that are helpful with this special population organized according to the phases in the course of a cancer illness: time of diagnosis, active treatment, palliation, terminal illness, and survivorhood psychological issues surrounding diagnosis / psychiatric issues in active treatment / adjustment disorders and major depression / modalities of treatment / suicide / anxiety and insomnia / delirium / other psychiatric disorders / compliance with treatment psychiatric issues in palliation [pain control] psychiatric issues in the terminal phase [death and dying, bereavement] psychological issues during survivorhood (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |
