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Cancer, communication and aging

Title
Cancer, communication and aging / edited by Lisa Sparks, H. Dan O'Hair, Gary L. Kreps.
Publication
Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Sparks, Lisa.
  • O'Hair, Dan.
  • Kreps, Gary L.
Description
vi, 340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Health communication
Uniform Title
Health communication (Cresskill, N.J.)
Subject
  • Geriatric oncology
  • Communication in medicine
  • Older people > Communication
  • Neoplasms > psychology
  • Aged
  • Communication
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Neoplasms > nursing
  • Patients > psychology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
1. Conceptualizing Cancer Communication and Aging: New Directions for Research / Lisa Sparks, H. Dan O'Hair and Gary L. Kreps -- Pt. I. Communicating About Cancer Information and Aging: Issues of Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Identity -- 2. The Impact of Cognitive and Emotive Communication Barriers on Older Adult Message Processing of Cancer-Related Health Information: New Directions for Research / Lisa Sparks and Monique Mitchell Turner -- 3. Aging Adults and Online Cancer Information: Promises and Pitfalls in an Era of Genomic Health Care / Roxanne Parrott, Janice L. Raup Kreiger, Kami Silk and Nichole Egbert -- 4. Connecting Health, Communication, and Aging: Cancer Communication and Older Adults / Jon F. Nussbaum, Doreen Baringer, Carla L. Fisher and Amanda L. Kundrat -- 5. Cancer, Aging, and Social Identity: Development: of an Integrated Model of Social Identity Theory and Health Communication / Lisa Sparks and Jake Harwood -- Pt. II. Communicating About Cancer Survivorship and Aging: Issues of Comfort, Healing, and Social Support -- 6. Comforting Episodes: Transcendent Experiences of Cancer Survivors / Athena du Pre and Eileen Berlin Ray -- 7. Finding Hope and Healing: Composing and Re-Composing Survivor Identities / Jennifer Ott Anderson and Patricia Geist-Martin -- 8. When Black Women Talk About Breast Cancer; How Health Care Workers Need to Learn to Listen / Margaret Chamberlain Wilmoth, Boyd Davis and L. Delores Sanders -- 9. Cancer and Older Adults: A Model of Technology and Social Support / James D. Robinson, Jeanine Warisse Turner and Teresa L. Thompson -- 10. Online Support Groups Among Older Adults With Cancer and Their Lay Caregivers / Jim L. Query, Jr. and Kevin B. Wright -- 11. When the Parent Has Cancer: A Life-Span Developmental Approach to Communication Competency Humor Orientation and Relational Satisfaction in the Older Adult Parent-Adult Child Relationship / Elizabeth Harzold and Lisa Sparks -- Pt. III. Communicating About Cancer Contexts and Aging: Issues of Cultural Values, Spirituality, and End of Life -- 12. Investigating Cancer and Aging From a Cultural Perspective / Loretta L. Pecchioni, Janice L. Raup Krieger, Lisa Sparks, Margaret J. Pitts and Hiroshi Ota -- 13. An Organizational Communication Approach to Integrating Latino Cultural Values Into Cancer Care / Melinda M. Villagran and Mary E. Hoffman -- 14. Finding Meaning in the Journey: Methods of Spiritual Coping for Aging Patients With Cancer / Nichole Egbert, Lisa Sparks, Gary L. Kreps and Athena du Pre -- 15. Ending the End-of-Life Communication Impasse: A Dialogic Intervention / John W. Lannamann, Linda M. Harris, Alexis D. Bakos and Kylene J. Baker.
ISBN
  • 9781572737549 (hardbound)
  • 1572737549 (hardbound)
  • 9781572737556 (paperbound)
  • 1572737557 (paperbound)
LCCN
2008017231
OCLC
  • ocn225389297
  • 225389297
  • SCSB-5434512
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries