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Older adults require an individualized approach for preventive care decisions. While preventive guidelines are often written taking into account a patient’s age, clinicians also need to consider factors other than age—such as life expectancy, functional status, and patient preferences—when determining whether a given preventive test or treatment is appropriate for their older patients. In this chapter, we present a five-step, person-centered framework for making screening decisions in older adults, using cancer screening as a paradigm.
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Yourman, L.C., Guan, J.Y., Gupta, R. (2020). Individualized Decision-Making for Preventive Medicine in Older Adults. In: Chun, A. (eds) Geriatric Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19625-7_28
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