Older adults with cancer have increasing needs in physical, cognitive, and emotional
domains, and they can experience decline in all domains with the diagnosis and treatment …

Innovation is a form of realising a new way of doing something, often ignoring traditional
wisdom, in order to meet new challenges. Globally, particularly in emerging economies, the …

This book presents the methodology, findings and implications of a large-scale corpus-
based study of the metaphors used to talk about cancer and the end of life (including care at …

Health consumers are increasingly participating in consumer-to-consumer (C2C) online
health communities (OHCs) to receive health-related support and to provide assistance and …

PURPOSE: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the mental health of adults in the United
States because of recommended preventive behaviors such as physical distancing. Our …

Purpose Using a sense making approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine the role
that virtual health communities play as a source of informational and social support for …

Background The availability of an increasing number of online health forums has altered the
experience of living with a health condition, as more people are now able to connect and …

Social media has become integral to our daily lives and has transformed how people
communicate and share information. It has also emerged as a powerful tool in health …

Background: In recent years, the question of how patients' participating in online
communities affects various patient reported outcomes (PROs) has been investigated in …

This paper presents a systematic review of online health communities (OHCs) published
between 2009 and 2020 in the ACM Digital Library. Aiming to consolidate the current issues …