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How to Look After You While Dealing with a Sick Pet

2018

Dealing with a sick pet can result in caregiver burden, causing anger, depression and anxiety. Find out 3 simple strategies for how to cope with a sick pet

07:49 min

When Families Take Care of Their Own

As the number of people with severe disabilities, debilitating chronic diseases and terminal illnesses grows, concern about their care has focused primarily on long-term care facilities, nursing homes, home health aides and hospices.

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Jane E. Brody
2008
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Health Care? Daughters Know All About It

The essential role that daughters play in the American health care system is well known but has received little attention.

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Roni Caryn Rabin
2017
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Passages In Caregiving: Turning Chaos Into Confidence

No one really expects it, but at some time or another, just about everyone has been—or will be—responsible for giving care, for a sustained period, to someone close to them.

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Gail Sheehy
2025
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How Chronic Illness or Disability Affects a Family

Families—especially those who communicate openly—may be strengthened by experiences associated with managing their child’s health condition or disability.

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Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health
2021
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Cruising through Caregiving: Reducing the Stress of Caring for Your Loved One

Caregiving is no vacation, but you can cruise more smoothly through it! If you’re facing the daunting reality that you’re about to become a caregiver whether you planned for it or not, Cruising through Caregiving is the down-to-earth and authoritative answer you need.

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Jennifer L. FitzPatrick
2025
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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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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.

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Jody Gastfriend
2025
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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.

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Barry J. Jacobs, Julia L. Mayer
2025
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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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Caring for a Seriously Ill Child

Taking care of a chronically ill child is one of the most draining and difficult tasks a parent can face. Beyond handling physical challenges and medical needs, you’ll have to deal with your child’s emotional needs and the impact that a prolonged illness can have on the entire family.

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Reviewed by KidsHealth Medical Experts
2015
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