ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

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.

Read on www.cancercare.org

FindCenter Post-Image
09:31

The Hidden Role Informal Caregivers Play in Health Care | Scott Williams

Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role of informal caregivers—those friends and relatives who, out of love, go the extra mile for patients in need.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
04:39

Work-Life Balance: How to Balance Work and At-Home Care

In this video, “Work-Life Balance,” Mary Alexander from Home Instead Senior Care talks about how to balance work and in-home care. She discusses the negative effects of not having balance in one’s life, starting with what work-life balance does, and doesn’t mean.

Video
2010
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image
05:26

Caregiver Work-Life Balance Is Essential to Building Caregiver Resilience

Caregiver work-life balance is essential to building caregiver resilience. Understand some simple steps to take to build your resilience.

Video
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

My Parent’s Keeper: The Guilt, Grief, Guesswork, and Unexpected Gifts of Caregiving

When it comes time to provide care for those who once cared for us, where can we turn? This book: • offers practical guidance for a broad range of caregiving situations when family caregivers assume their new role. • uses the latest research and draws on case histories and interviews.

Book
Jody Gastfriend
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Sandwich Generation’s Guide to Eldercare

A practical, accessible, and comprehensive guide to the legal, financial, emotional and daily living challenges of caring for aging parents while raising your own family. If you are caring for an elderly loved one while raising a child, you may feel overwhelmed and unprepared.

Book
Kimberly Wickert, Danielle Dresden, Phillip D. Rumrill Jr.
2013
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

AARP Meditations for Caregivers: Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Support for You and Your Family

Family care giving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues.

Book
Barry J. Jacobs, Julia L. Mayer
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.

Book
Kate Washington
2022
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Nightingale Gene: Lessons to Living a Balanced Life and Having the Nursing Career of Your Dreams

The Nightingale Gene provides lessons for those who make caring for others a priority over taking care of themselves.

Book
Jayne Van Brunt
2025
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Caregivers Work: A Six Step Guide to Balancing Work and Family (Elder Care Edition)

Feeling the stress of caring for an older person while remaining productive on your job? This book can help NOW. This is a practical, comprehensive, and easy-to-use guide that you can use to manage job responsibilities while safely caring for an aging relative or friend.

Book
John Paul Marosy
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Happiness Through Hardship: A Guide and Journal for Cancer Patients, Their Caregivers and Friends During an Initial Diagnosis

Does your diagnosis have you desperate as to what to do next? Shocked, scared and practically paralyzed with your next steps? Help is here in this brilliant, quick and simplified book backed with the best advice from a two-time cancer survivor who walked in similar shoes.

Book
Caryn Sullivan
2019
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Caregiver Well-Being