Cancer in older adults needs tailored plans. Learn assessments, treatment tweaks, and support systems that improve tolerance, independence, and outcomes without unnecessary toxicity.
Screen cognition, mood, nutrition, mobility, medications, social supports, and finances. Findings guide therapy intensity, rehab, and safety planning.
Review all prescriptions and supplements. Prevent harmful interactions with chemotherapy, targeted drugs, or anticoagulants; simplify regimens where safe.
Prioritise protein, hydration, vitamin D, and resistance exercises to combat sarcopenia, maintain function, and improve treatment tolerance.
Assess gait, footwear, home hazards; add railings, night lights, and balance training to reduce injury risk during therapy.
Renal, hepatic, and marrow reserves vary. Adjust doses and intervals to preserve efficacy while minimising hospitalisations and delirium.
Aggressively manage pain, constipation, nausea, neuropathy, mucositis, and sleep. Early palliative input improves comfort and decisions.
Watch for chemo-brain, delirium, depression. Use reminders, orientation cues, medication boxes, and caregiver check-ins.
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