Abstract

PIMENTEL, Francisco Luís et al. Cancer Network for Welfare Aging (NEWAYS): Strategies for Optimizing the Care of Elderly Patients with Cancer. Medicina Interna [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.4, pp.39-41. ISSN 0872-671X.  https://doi.org/10.24950/PV/6/19/4/2020.

The project NEWAYS − Cancer Network for Welfare Aging aimed to raise national awareness for Geriatric Oncology issue in Portugal. To do so, it set todefine strategiccourses of action in four preponderant areas in the care of elderly with cancer, in order to foster its optimization and promote the development of Geriatric Oncology policies in Portugal: clinic, economics and health policy, epidemiologic and social investigation and other areas (health literacy, patient-oriented information technologies, ethics, patient advocacy andawareness). After awide consensus amongst the group of experts who composed the network that leveraged this project, the proposed courses of action are now presented.

Keywords : Aged; Geriatrics; Health Services for the Aged; Portugal; Neoplasms.

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