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Caregiving for a Loved One with a Long-Term Illness

By CancerCare staff — 2021

When you are caring for a loved one with a long-term illness, caregiving becomes a marathon rather than a sprint.

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Making Toast: A Family Story

When Roger's daughter, Amy—a gifted doctor, mother, and wife—collapses and dies from an asymptomatic heart condition at age thirty-eight, Roger and his wife, Ginny, leave their home on the South Shore of Long Island to move in with their son-in-law, Harris, and their three young grandchildren:...

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Roger Rosenblatt
2025
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Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness

What if your path to a more successful, healthy, and satisfying life is actually not about you? When his father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Richard Lui did something tough. The award-winning news anchor decided to set aside his growing career to care for family.

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Richard Lui
2025
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Caregiver’s Survival Guide: Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One

Caregiver’s Survival Guide is based on Dr. Robert Yonover’s personal experiences. While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, he also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children.

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Robert Yonover
2018
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Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents, Even If They Didn’t Take Care of You

A guide for estranged adult children of aging parents defines care giving as a developmental stage that provides an opportunity to work out unresolved issues, counseling readers on such topics as establishing boundaries, forgiveness, sibling dynamics, the effect of gender on the elderly, and the...

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Roberta Satow
2025
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No Saints around Here: A Caregiver’s Days

When we promise “in sickness and in health,” it may be a mercy that we don’t know exactly what lies ahead. Forcing food on an increasingly recalcitrant spouse. Brushing his teeth. Watching someone you love more than ever slip away day by day.

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Susan Allen Toth
2025
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Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions; her extraordinary contributions to the care of the sick, the dying, and thousands of others nobody else was prepared to look after has been recognized and acclaimed...

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Mother Teresa
2025
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Mother Teresa: An Authorized Biography

During her lifetime, Mother Teresa resisted having her full biography written.

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Kathryn Spink
2025
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Caregiver Series: Stress Management

Feeling overwhelmed and juggling multiple responsibilities on top of providing care to your loved one with cancer can lead to feelings of anxiety and depression. You might feel as if the weight of world is on your shoulders.

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2018
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Take Back Your Life: A Caregiver’s Guide to Finding Freedom in the Midst of Overwhelm

What starts as loving, compassionate care becomes an isolating, stressful, never-ending race to get everything done. Inevitably, anger and resentment creep in—toward the person being cared for as well as other family members who don’t pitch in...or both.

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Loren Gelberg-Goff
2025
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Navigating Eldercare and Dementia—101 Stories for Family Caregivers

Navigating eldercare can be overwhelming, especially when dealing with dementia.

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Amy Newmark
2025
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