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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.

Read on www.cancercare.org

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Working Daughter: A Guide to Caring for Your Aging Parents While Making a Living

Working Daughter is a revelatory look at who’s caring for our aging population and how these unpaid family caregivers are trying to manage caring for their parents, raising their children, maintaining relationships, and pursuing their careers.

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Liz O’Donnell
2025
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The Shadow of Trepidation: Reflections on Caregiving During My Wife’s Battle with Breast Cancer

According to the American Cancer Society, cancer diagnoses in the U.S. take place at a rate of over 1.8 million per year, or roughly one every 17.5 seconds. One out of every three women and one out of every two men in this country will get cancer in their lifetimes.

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Keith T. Hardeman
2025
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How to Help Someone with Cancer: 70 Ways to Help Cancer Patients and Their Families During Cancer Treatment

A loved one was recently diagnosed with cancer and you aren’t sure the best way to help. Surely there’s something you can do besides bringing a frozen dinner? This book will be your guide to practical ways you can help a cancer patient as they are progressing through treatment.

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Shannon Benish
2017
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Another Place at the Table

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman’s thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.

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Kathy Harrison
2004
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Why Might Good People Deliver Bad Care? | Yvonne Sawbridge | TEDxUniversityofBirmingham

Yvonne Sawbridge says that caring professionals offer hard, emotional work. In the same way in which physical labour is recognised and accounted for in management practice, emotional labour needs to be recognised as a role requirement for nurses and other caring professions.

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2015
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Where Is the Mango Princess? A Journey Back from Brain Injury

When her husband, Alan, is injured in a speedboat accident, Cathy Crimmins reluctantly assumes the role of caregiver and learns to cope with the person he has become.

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Cathy Crimmins
2001
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When Your Parent Has Memory Loss | Alzheimer’s Caregiver Support

In today’s expert interview, we speak with Jennifer Fink from the Fading Memories—Alzheimers Caregiver Support podcast.

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2019
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Caregiver Guilt—Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease

How to deal with caregiver guilt when caring for an Alzheimer’s patient.

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2012
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Learning Not to Argue—Memory and Alzheimer’s Disease

Caregiver tips for learning to accept a different reality, for being patient and kind.

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2012
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How to Talk to Someone with Dementia

Essential tips for communicating for someone with dementia. Nationally renowned presenter Diane Waugh shares her own experiences and the mistakes she made as a caregiver for her mother.

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2018
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