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Enabling Personalized Needs-Based Cancer Patient Navigation Using a Caring Life-Course Approach.
Carla Thamm1, Oluwaseyifunmi Andi Agbejule1, Elise Button1
1Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Seminars in Oncology Nursing
|September 24, 2025
Summary
A person-centered approach to cancer patient navigation, informed by the Caring Life-Course Theory (CLCT), can improve care. This model integrates personal experiences and social networks to optimize self-management and self-care for cancer patients.
Area of Science:
- Oncology
- Healthcare Management
- Sociology
Background:
- Patient navigation addresses barriers in cancer care access and quality.
- Interventions include education, support, referrals, and self-management.
- The Caring Life-Course Theory (CLCT) can enhance person-centered navigation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a person-centered cancer patient navigation model informed by the CLCT.
- To integrate biographical, experiential, and contextual factors into navigation services.
- To optimize patient choices, self-management, and self-care.
Main Methods:
- Discussion paper drawing on evidence, policy, and theory.
- Proposing a framework for patient navigation service provision.
- Considering personal biographies, lived experiences, social networks, and healthcare contexts.
Main Results:
- A CLCT-informed program enhances personalized, needs-based cancer navigation.
- Integration of biographical inquiry and care networks optimizes choices and self-management.
- Technology can support dynamic navigation, biographically informed assessments, and tailored care plans.
Conclusions:
- A person-centered, needs-based approach informed by CLCT addresses holistic cancer patient needs.
- This approach optimizes self-management and self-care by considering individual circumstances.
- Cancer nurses are ideally positioned to lead the development and delivery of such navigation services.
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