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Brief Title: Nursing Follow up in Geriatric Oncology : Tracking Time of Caregiver Exhaustion Risk
Official Title: Nursing Follow up in Geriatric Oncology : Tracking Time of Caregiver Exhaustion Risk
Study ID: NCT02551965
Brief Summary: In geriatric oncology, caregivers are submitted to a risk of exhaustion. To investigate the clinical risk factor of exhaustion, the researchers propose to conduct a prospective observational study during 6 months phone follow up of the caregivers. The recruitment will take place during the oncogeriatric assessment consultation.
Detailed Description: The primary purpose aim to describe the caregiver of patient with 70 years old or more, suffered from cancer and for which a treatment is planned, along with their long term evolution. The secondary purposes are to : * Assess the exhaustion level felt by this caregiver * Assess the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition * Relate factors associated to the medium delay of caregiver exhaustion apparition during patient chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy treatment
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Unité de Coordination Régionale en Oncogériatrie - Hôpital de Hautepierre, Strasbourg, , France
Name: Damien HEITZ, MD
Affiliation: Strasbourg's University Hospitals - UCROG
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR