title: A nonprofit community service and academic collaboration to increase outreach to older adults with cancer: lessons learned.
abstract: This article describes the lessons learned by social work practitioners and nurse researcher faculty from a unique partnership between a 501(c) 3 nonprofit community service organization (cancer helpline) and an academic facility to improve outreach to older adults with cancer. In preparing the research proposal, carrying out the procedures, and instituting a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach lessons learned included the importance of experienced researchers/writers, unpredictability of research activities, importance of collecting complete data, communicating underlying discipline and role-oriented assumptions, and effectiveness of CBPR to increase outreach to older adults with cancer in Delaware's eight cancer clusters.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA. klemmpa@udel.edu
authors.forename: Paula R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Klemm
authors.forename: Veronica F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Rempusheski
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Teixeira
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003691:Delaware; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy*; D012947:Social Work / Q000458:organization & administration; D014495:Universities / Q000458:organization & administration*