Category	Concept
Being panicked over unavoidable death	Being upset about imminent death
Being panicked over unavoidable death	Being confused about ineligibility to receive radical treatment
Reconsidering having cancer in older age	It is unavoidable to have cancer at this age
Reconsidering having cancer in older age	Even though I have cancer, it all depends on how you look at it

Recognizing a desire to survive even in older age	Conflicting feelings between “I have lived enough” and “I still want to live”
Recognizing a desire to survive even in older age	Want to live until I can no longer live

Changing one’s ideas from radical to life-prolonging treatment	Determining one’s own medical conditions
	Positively reconsidering life-prolonging treatment

Carefully choosing treatments would allow to carry on one’s usual way of life	Carefully examining whether or not taking a chance with life-prolonging treatments in older age are worthwhile
	Fulfilling their own way of life
	Obtaining approval of family about their choices

Carefully choosing physicians to whom could entrust one’s life in older age	Carefully choosing physicians
	Focusing on information only from physicians
	Entrusting treatment decisions to physicians