title: Special home healthcare nursing challenges: patients with cancer.
abstract: This article addresses strategies for assessing common psychological complications experienced by homebound patients with cancer and by the patients' families. It describes interventions that home healthcare nurses can use to effectively intervene with these patients.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Woodward
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Thobaben
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D009730:Nursing Assessment