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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

Caring for Family, Caring for Yourself

Whether you choose to be a family caregiver or the job is thrust upon you by circumstances, your most important responsibility beyond caring for your ill or disabled relative is caring for yourself.

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Jane E. Brody
2008
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Caregiving for a Loved One with a Long-Term Illness

When you are caring for a loved one with a long-term illness, caregiving becomes a marathon rather than a sprint.

Article
CancerCare staff
2021
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When You Can’t Change the World, Change Your Feelings

Adjusting your attitude is easier than you think.

Article
Arthur C. Brooks
2021
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When and How to Say “No” to Caregiving

Being able to say, “No, I can no longer continue to provide care in this way,” may not only save the caregiver from emotional and physical burnout, but can also open up opportunities of shared caregiving responsibilities with others while deepening the level of honesty and openness in the...

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Deborah Colgan
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Emotional Side of Caregiving

Whether you become a caregiver gradually or all of sudden due to a crisis, or whether you are a caregiver willingly or by default, many emotions surface when you take on the job of caregiving.

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Donna Schempp
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The Caregiving Wife’s Handbook: Caring for Your Seriously Ill Husband, Caring for Yourself

A month after proposing marriage, Diana Denholm’s husband was diagnosed with colon cancer and later congestive heart failure. Following a heart transplant several of her husband’s body systems began failing forcing Diana to become his primary caregiver for more than a decade.

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Diana B. Denholm
2025
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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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Caregiver’s Survival Guide: Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One

Caregiver’s Survival Guide is based on Dr. Robert Yonover’s personal experiences. While struggling to become a successful scientist and inventor, he also was primary caregiver for his paralyzed wife for more than twenty years and raised their two children.

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Robert Yonover
2018
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How to Use Mindfulness to Reduce Caregiver Stress

An attitude of heightened awareness and focused attention can have great benefits.

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Julie Hayes
2020
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Take Back Your Life: A Caregiver’s Guide to Finding Freedom in the Midst of Overwhelm

What starts as loving, compassionate care becomes an isolating, stressful, never-ending race to get everything done. Inevitably, anger and resentment creep in—toward the person being cared for as well as other family members who don’t pitch in...or both.

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Loren Gelberg-Goff
2025
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Caregiver Well-Being