SARAH H. KAGAN, PhD, RN, is Ralston House Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing and a clinical nurse specialist at the Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. She gratefully acknowledges the counsel of Angela Iorianni-Cimbak, MSN, RN, director of the Mathias J. Brunner Instructional Technology Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing; Mary Beth Happ, PhD, FAAN, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh; Christine Ray, MSW, LCSW, center administrator, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing; and Carrie Tompkins Stricker, PhD, RN, oncology nurse practitioner and project manager, LIVESTRONGTM Survivorship Center of Excellence, Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania in preparing this column.
