April 9, 2024Annals of Surgery

“There’s So Much That They’re Enduring”

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Impaired emotional well-being poses persistent challenges before and after major elective surgery, directly undermining postoperative recovery in geriatric patients.
Semi-structured interviews with 25 older adult patients and 11 caregivers across three perioperative intervals revealed reliance on personal and social resources.
Highlights the necessity for structured perioperative care programs to address psychosocial experience and manage unaddressed emotional distress throughout recovery.

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Qualitative study reveals persistent emotional well-being challenges in older surgical patients and caregivers, highlighting the need for dedicated perioperative care resources.

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Kata et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e6fcb5b6db643587677033 https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000006293

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Qualitative study reveals persistent emotional well-being challenges in older surgical patients and caregivers, highlighting the need for dedicated perioperative care resources.

“There’s So Much That They’re Enduring”

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