Cancer, communication, and aging
By: edited by Lisa Sparks, H. Dan O'Hair, Gary L. Kreps.
Contributors: Sparks, Lisa.; O'Hair, Dan.; Kreps, Gary L.
Series: Health communication; Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
Publisher: Hampton Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cresskill, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572737549; 9781572737556
Subjects: Geriatric oncology; Communication in medicine; Older people -- Communication; Neoplasms -- psychology; Aged; Communication; Interpersonal Relations; Neoplasms -- nursing; Patients -- psychology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualizing cancer communication and aging : new directions for research / Lisa Sparks, H. Dan O'Hair & Gary L. Kreps; title: The impact of cognitive and emotive communication barriers on older adult : message processing of cancer-related health information : new directions for research / Lisa Sparks & Monique Mitchell Turner; title: Aging adults and online cancer information : promises and pitfalls in an era of genomic health care / Roxanne Parrott ... [et al.]; title: Connecting health, communication, and aging : cancer communication and older adults / Jon F. Nussbaum ... [et al.]; title: Cancer, aging, and social identity : development of an integrated model of social identity theory and health communication / Lisa Sparks & Jake Harwood; title: Comforting episodes : transcendent experiences of cancer survivors / Athena du Pré & Eileen Berlin Ray; title: Finding hope and healing : composing and re-composing survivor identities / Jennifer Ott Anderson & Patricia Geist-Martin; title: When Black women talk about breast cancer : how health care workers need to learn to listen / Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth, Boyd Davis & L. Delores Sanders; title: Cancer and older adults : a model of technology and social support / James D. Robinson, Jeanine Warisse Turner & Teresa L. Thompson; title: Online support groups among older adults with cancer and their lay caregivers / Jim L. Query Jr. & Kevin B. Wright; title: When the parent has cancer : a life-span developmental approach to communication; title: Competency, humor orientation, and relational satisfaction in the older adult parent-adult child relationship / Elizabeth Harzold & Lisa Sparks; title: Investigating cancer and aging from a cultural perspective / Loretta L. Pecchioni ... [et al.]; title: An organizational communication approach to integrating Latino cultural values into cancer care / Melinda M. Villagran & Mary F. Hoffman; title: Finding meaning in the journey : methods of spiritual coping for aging patients with cancer / Nichole Egbert ... [et al.]; title: Ending the end-of-life communication impasse : a dialogic intervention / John W. Lannamann ... [et al.].