Our Favorite Resources for Caregivers and Co-Survivors
  • Offers information on public policy and research for caregivers, advice, a navigator to help find resources and services in your area, as well as discussion groups.
    Family Caregiver Alliance

  • Designed to provide caregivers with the basic tools, skills, and information they need to protect their own physical and mental health while they provide high quality care for their loved one.
    Family Caregiving 101

  • Dedicated to providing support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and to increasing public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
    National Alliance for Caregiving

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Caregivers and Co-Survivors

As a caregiver or co-survivor, you have a journey of your own that may involve changes in your relationships and new insights into who you are. In many ways, your journey is similar to that of the person going through cancer. The acceptance of this disease as part of your life will require its own focused attention.

Uncertain Obligations

BY JO CAVALLO

Navigating the emotional and practical hurdles of caring for parents and stepparents. 

Well-Being

Taking Care of Yourself

BY MELISSA KNOPPER

How and why caregivers should care for themselves.

Grief

Deconstructing Grief

BY ERIK NESS

Sorting out the emotions of loss. 

Diagnosis

When Patients Don't Want to Know

BY JOANNE KENEN

Denial places added burden on caregivers. 

How Out-of-Towners Stay in the Loop

BY MARC SILVER

The challenges of caregiving from a distance. 

Stressed Out

BY LACEY MEYER

Overwhelmed spouse caregivers take control of stress.

A New Role

BY LAMBETH HOCHWALD

A guide for navigating the challenging territory of caretaking.

Grief Before Death

BY MARC SILVER

Struggling with the sorrow of anticipatory grief. 

Meet the Parents' Caregivers

BY MARC SILVER

Children go from being cared for to giving care.

Navigating the Caregiver Terrain

BY MARC SILVER

What I wish our doctors had told me when my wife had breast cancer. 

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