The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected millions of people in over 180 territories, causing a significant impact on healthcare systems globally. Older adults, as well as people living with cancer, appear to be particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 related morbidity and mortality, which means that older adults with cancer are an especially high-risk population. This has led to significant changes in the way geriatric oncologists provide care to older patients, including the implementation of novel methods for clinical visits, interruptions or delays in procedures, and modification of therapeutic strategies, both in the curative and palliative settings. In this manuscript, we provide a global overview of the perspectives of geriatric oncology providers from countries across Europe, America, and Asia, regarding the adaptive strategies utilized to continue providing high quality care for older patients with cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these perspectives, we attempt to show that, although each country and setting has specific issues, we all face similar challenges when providing care for our older patients with cancer during these difficult times.

正在进行的2019年冠状病毒疾病（COVID-19）大流行已经影响了180多个地区的数百万人，对全球医疗系统产生了重大影响。老年人以及患有癌症的人似乎特别容易受到与COVID-19相关的发病率和死亡率的影响，这意味着患有癌症的老年人是特别高风险的人群。这已导致老年肿瘤科医生向老年患者提供护理的方式发生了重大变化，包括在治疗和姑息治疗环境中实施新的临床就诊方法，中断或延误手术流程以及改变治疗策略。在这份手稿中，我们对欧洲，美洲和亚洲各国的老年肿瘤学提供者的观点进行了全球概述，关于在COVID-19大流行期间继续为老年癌症患者提供高质量护理的适应性策略。通过这些观点，我们试图表明，尽管每个国家和地区都有特定的问题，但是在这些困难时期为老年人癌症患者提供护理时，我们所有人都面临着类似的挑战。