Caregiving Blogs
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A diagnosis of cancer has an impact on the entire family. Emotional support from family and friends can make a significant difference to the experience of survivorship, but knowing when, how, and in what way to offer support can be a challenge to figure out.
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For Caregivers: How to Support Your Loved One at Appointments
Tips, suggestions, and advice for how caregivers can be a partner to their loved one when at appointments. Starting with, asking how you can be helpful and what role they would like you to take. -
Tips For Managing Lung Cancer During the Holiday Season
The holidays are a time to celebrate, but they can also be a time of stress as we try to create that perfect celebration. Bringing together family and friends, decorating, shopping -
Being a Caregiver for a Parent
Being a caregiver to a parent is different for everyone, but finding success is about the roles and strengths of each person.
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Caregiver Resources Starter Kit: 5 Resources Caregivers Should Access upon their Loved One’s Diagnosis
Navigating a lung cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming not only to the patient but to their caregiver as well. It’s normal to feel lost or confused and not know where to start or
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For Caregivers: Maintaining Your Emotional Health While Caring for Others
Caregiving may be the most challenging role a person can take on, but also one of the most valuable. In some instances, providing physical and emotional care to a loved one can become a round-the-clock job that may shift other priorities like career or relationships.
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Caregiver Spotlight: Myra Aldarondo
In the spring of 2021, Myra’s husband Kelvin had COVID-19. After, he had a lingering cough and shortness of breath. His chest hurt a bit when he breathed. They assumed it was
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Resources for Lung Cancer Caregivers
Being a caregiver for someone with lung cancer can be rewarding, but it can also be challenging. This is because a lung cancer diagnosis is life-changing for both the person with
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Caregiver Spotlight: Bill Hogan
The day my wife Heather found out she had lung cancer was the day that everything changed. In that moment, our plans for the future disappeared. Our focus for the present became
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Caregiver Spotlight: Ben Schachtel
I had just graduated college in 2013 when my dad was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. Like most people diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, the discovery of his disease was a
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Caregiver Spotlight: Jennifer Rice
Caregiver is a funny term to me. There have been times in this process I’ve felt like one, but most of the time, I haven’t needed to take that role. My husband, who is an advanced
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Fundraiser Spotlight: Kristina Burke
“Couples who have cancer together, stay together,” says Kristina Burke, a breast cancer survivor who is also primary caregiver to her husband Jim, who has stage IV EGFR lung cancer