How should preventive healthcare change as people age? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Research on when preventive healthcare like cancer screenings should start is abundant, with some guidelines, such as for breast or colorectal cancer, pushing the time to begin screening earlier. But when should such screenings stop? That’s the focus of research by Nancy Schoenborn, a geriatrics expert at Johns Hopkins.

Schoenborn: Research I've been working on is to think about individualized preventive care specifically with cancer screening. As adults age their health status changes, functional status changes and their health priorities change. What used to make sense in midlife or before a major health event may no longer make sense and I think it's important to continuously reassess those and talk to patients to see if what we're proposing still makes sense.           :32

Schoenborn’s research shows that messaging around stopping is important. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.