Supportive care in elderly cancer patients P096 PROFESSIONAL’S EXPECTATIONS TO IMPROVE QUALITY OF CARE, SUPPORTIVE HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES UTILIZATION IN GERIATRIC ONCOLOGY

Introduction: Coordination of a multidisciplinary and multiprofessional intervention is a key issue in the management of elderly cancer patients to improve health status and quality of life. Optimizing the links between professionals is needed to improve care planning, health and social service utilization. Objectives: Optimize the links between professionals and improve care planning, health and social service utilization. Methods: Descriptive study in a French University Hospital. A 6 item structured questionnaire was addressed to professionals involved in global and supportive cares of elderly cancer patients (name, location, effective’s health care and services offered, needs to improve the quality of their intervention). After the analysis of answers, definition of propositions to improve cares and services utilization. Results: The 37 respondents identified a total of 166 needs to improve quality care in geriatric oncology. Major expectations were concerning improvement of global/supportive cares and health care services utilization, a better coordination between geriatric teams and oncologists. Ten propositions, including a model of in-hospital health-care planning were defined to answer to professional’s needs with the aim of optimizing cancer treatment and global cares. Conclusion: Identification of effective services and needs can represent a first step in a continuous program to improve quality of cares, according to the French national cancer plan 2014–2019. It allows federating professionals for a coordination effort, a better organization of the clinical activity in geriatric oncology, to optimize clinical practice and global cares. Disclosure of interest: None declared.