Walking for Recovery From Surgery in Improving Quality of Life in Older Adults With Lung or Gastrointestinal Cancer and Their Family Caregivers

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To examine whether the intervention and telehealth approach would be feasible and
acceptable.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To examine patient outcome patterns suggesting the potential efficacy of the intervention
on self-efficacy, functional status (daily steps, 6-minute walk time, timed up and go),
psychological distress, symptoms, and global health status.

OUTLINE:

Patients and caregivers receive Walking for Recovery from Surgery prehabilitation
intervention in 4 sessions 3-7 days before surgery, before discharge, and at 2 and 7 days
post-discharge.

After completion of study, patients and caregivers are followed up for 2 months.

-Inclusion:

- PATIENT: Diagnosis of lung or GI (colorectal, pancreas, liver) cancers

- PATIENT: Scheduled to undergo surgery

- PATIENT: >= 65 years

- PATIENT: Able to read and understand English

- CAREGIVER: Family member/friend identified by the patient as the primary caregiver
before and after surgery

- CAREGIVER: >= 21 years

- CAREGIVER: Able to read and understand English

- This study will be conducted in patients and family caregivers who are scheduled to
undergo lung or GI cancer surgery treatment

- There are no restrictions related to performance status or life expectancy

- All subjects must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written
informed consent

Exclusion

• Subjects, who in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the
safety monitoring requirements of the study