Category

Concept

Being panicked over unavoidable death

Being upset about imminent death

Being confused about ineligibility to receive radical treatment

Reconsidering having cancer in older age

It is unavoidable to have cancer at this 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”

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