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5 Steps to Navigate the Cancer Caregiving Journey

By AARP staff — 2019

Information and conversation are key to facing the challenges of care

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The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer: Compassionate Advice for Caring for You and Your Loved One

Looking after someone with cancer can be complex, overwhelming, and emotionally draining all at once. As a caregiver, you may also overlook your own well-being while you focus on your loved one.

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Victoria Landes
2021
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Things I Wish I’d Known: Cancer Caregivers Speak Out

Nearly three-quarters of American households will find themselves caring for a cancer patient at one point in their lives. Based on formal interviews with nonprofessional caregivers, this book is the first to capture their thoughts, feelings, and insights on a large scale.

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Deborah J. Cornwall
2016
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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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The Caregiver’s Perspective: Coping, Fear, Anxiety, and Resentment

Marc Silver, breast cancer caregiver and author of the book, Breast Cancer Husband, discusses his fears and concerns after his wife completed breast cancer treatment.

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2011
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Life After Diagnosis | Kay Redfield Jamison | Big Think

Kay Redfield Jamison discusses how she and her late husband found profound delight in his final years as well as the commanding power of the grieving process.

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2012
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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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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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Did I Remember to Tell You?: A Real-life Guidebook for Dementia Family Caregivers

While there is an abundance of information about dementia for family caregivers to learn symptoms, skills, do’s and don’ts, there is little to help them comprehend why it is so important to do everything differently than before this disease.

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Pam Kovacs Johnson
2020
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias—101 Stories of Caregiving, Coping, and Compassion

No one should face Alzheimer’s or dementia alone. These 101 stories will provide support, advice, and comfort for caregivers and those living with Alzheimer’s. This collection of personal stories will support you through all the phases of your journey.

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Amy Newmark, Angela Timashenka Geiger
2014
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