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Issues in Caregiving for Cancer Patients with Long-Term Care Needs

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As survival rates for even the most lethal forms of cancer have increased over the past several decades, more and more cancer survivors and their caregivers have had to live with the disease as a long-term, chronic stressor affecting the quality of their llives. This chapter will cull the research, educational and clinical literatures about long-term cancer caregiving to provide an overview of some of the key issues–including late effects of medical treatments, psychological consequences of caregiving, decreased social supports, and financial strain–with which many families have to contend. A case vignette will be used to illustrate these issues and to suggest means by which families can live as well as possible with cancer over extended periods of time.

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  2. School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, USA

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  3. Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer, Houston, USA

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Jacobs, B.J. (2012). Issues in Caregiving for Cancer Patients with Long-Term Care Needs. In: Talley, R., McCorkle, R., Baile, W. (eds) Cancer Caregiving in the United States. Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3154-1_8

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