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Whether you’re a patient, loved one, or caregiver, we offer a variety of professionally-led programs designed to assist you — in person and online — at any Cancer Support Community or Gilda's Club location. Find Your Closest Support Center Enhancing...
Cancer is life-changing, and as anyone who has been touched by it knows (whether as a patient or caregiver), nothing is ever quite the same again. At A Fresh Chapter, we understand the critical need to heal the emotional scars of cancer, while creating a safe space to grieve what we’...
There are several things to think about when creating a caregiver plan for your patient. This guide supplies a Caregiver Plan Worksheet below that you can use to keep track of some of the caregiving responsibilities, help you document important information, stay organized, and make the job of c...
Danielle Hicks, a patient advocate, details her journey as a caregiver for her mother and provides advice for other caring for loved ones with lung cancer. Sponsored by Bristol Myers Squibb. Watch Advice for Someone with Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Danielle Hicks;Nisha Mohindra, MD;...
Attend a support group to help patients. Participate in some of the online Facebook groups on support programs for those who aren’t able to get out. If you’re willing to donate some of your time to help others, you are definitely needed! Start your research by reading through this sect...
Provide unpaid support to an adult loved one (recently diagnosed with cancer, finished treatment and has not experienced recurrence) Worry that their loved one’scacermay come back Willing to participate in online support group meetings with other women caregivers ...
2 They offer a wide number of online support groups. They are run by social workers and are virtual in nature. Coping skills are covered during these virtual sessions. There are general cancer support groups that are for patients and caregivers that speak Spanish. Additionally, caregiver and ...
associations with caregiver status and the caregiver's relationship to the patient: a survey Line Lund1*, Lone Ross1, Morten Aagaard Petersen1 and Mogens Groenvold1,2 Abstract Background: Seriously ill patients often depend on their informal caregivers to help and support them through the disease...
Proxy respondents are frequently used in surveys, including those assessing health-related quality of life (HRQOL). In cancer, most research involving proxies has been undertaken with paired proxy-patient populations, where proxy responses are compared t