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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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How to Balance Work and Caregiving

These ideas may help you care for your loved one while keeping up your career.

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WebMD staff
2021
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Caregiver’s Conundrum: Feeling Torn Between Caregiving and Work

Compartmentalize your life to be fully present in the moment

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Barry J. Jacobs
2020
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The Nonstop Juggle of Compound Caregiving

Ways to stay afloat when you are providing care for multiple people at the same time

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Amanda Singleton
2020
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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
2016
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When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life

Some people who have to be responsible for their siblings or parents as children grow up to be compulsive caretakers.

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Cindy Lamothe
2017
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Bella

How do you know when it’s time to take your autistic, bipolar twelve-year-old daughter to the psych ward?

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Edward Bradshaw
2017
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Caregivers: Living with Guilt

How to keep it in check by tolerating ambivalence, maintaining balance and staying realistic.

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Barry J. Jacobs
2016
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Programs that Compensate Family Members to Care for Loved Ones with Alzheimer’s or Dementia

Caring for a loved one with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, can be a difficult task. Often this task falls to a family member, and as the disease progresses, the care needs become greater, requiring more hours of the caregiver’s time.

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Dementia Care Central
2019
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Portals Not Problem Solvers

As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.

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Frank Ostaseski
2017
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Living in the Limbo of Chronic Illness

Last week was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of my husband’s health crisis. As I gaze at the permanent handicap placard and at him sleeping, once again, on the couch, I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned this past year.

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Mary Wilson
2017
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