A team led by UCF College of Nursing Endowed Professor Victoria Loerzel ’07PhD was awarded a $2.5M grant to test the innovative intervention that simulates symptoms and self-management.
Imagine you’re heading home from chemotherapy treatment armed with information from doctors and nurses on how to manage the most feared side effects: nausea and vomiting. What do you do?
If you’re an older adult, you may do nothing. That’s not good, according to Victoria Loerzel ’07PhD, a professor in UCF’s College of Nursing who has been researching older adults with cancer for over a decade.
This is why Loerzel and a team of researchers developed an innovative educational game for older adults with cancer. The game recently received a $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research for a large-scale pilot.
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