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Caregiving

American College of Physicians: Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer - This guide is for family, friends, and hospice workers caring for persons with advanced cancer at home.

Cancer Caregiving - The purpose of this Web site is to help adults who offer care to a loved one with cancer reduce the burden of caregiving. In order to use the tools offered here, you will first need to register.

Cancer.Net: Caregiving - This is the patient information Web site of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). A number of articles on different caregiving topics will be found here.

Family Caregiving 101 - The National Family Caregivers Association and the National Alliance for Caregiving joined together to provide this Web site. Here you can find assistance, answers, new ideas and helpful advice.

HealthyNJ: Caregiving - HealthyNJ is a product of the University Libraries at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. A wealth of information can be found at this site including resources just for New Jersey.
Also in Spanish.

MedlinePlus: Caregivers - Developed by the National Library of Medicine, this consumer health site directs the user to selected online resources on many common diseases, conditions, and concerns.
Also in Spanish.

National Cancer Institute: When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer - This informative site focuses on the caregiver's needs.
You may also be interested in the following:

National Family Caregivers Association - The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA) supports, empowers, educates, and speaks up for the more than 50 million Americans who care for a chronically ill, aged, or disabled loved one.

Princess Margaret Hospital: Caring to the End of Life - Information about palliative care and tools to help cope with the experience of palliative care can be found at this site.

Strength for Caring - Strength for Caring is an online resource and community for family caregivers. This informative site strives to help family caregivers take care of their loved ones and themselves.

Well Spouse Association - Well Spouse is a national, not for profit membership organization which gives support to wives, husbands, and partners of the chronically ill and/or disabled.

 

March 2008