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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Here are a few tips to help guide you in supporting a loved one with a lifelong, debilitating illness.
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Learn how to give patients and their families the support they need.
Both working and non-working caregivers are likely to experience stress associated with “sandwich” caregiving.
So what does help when a friend or family member is in the thick of caregiving, or any crisis?
More adults these days find themselves becoming a caregiver for a family member, especially as the older demographic continues to grow. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, 85% of caregivers look after a relative or other loved one, and 42% of them care for a parent.
As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.