By AARP staff — 2019
Information and conversation are key to facing the challenges of care
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Taking care of a loved one with an illness or disability can stir up some complicated emotions.
Becoming a cancer caregiver will change your life in many ways, and your loss could be profound. Learning how to cope with the grieving process will help.
Whether you become a caregiver gradually or all of sudden due to a crisis, or whether you are a caregiver willingly or by default, many emotions surface when you take on the job of caregiving.
This is written for the person with advanced cancer, but it can be helpful to the people who care for, love, and support this person, too.
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Coping with anticipatory grief is different than coping with the grief after someone dies (conventional grief). You may have mixed feelings as you find yourself in that delicate place of maintaining hope, while at the same time beginning to let go.