Breast Cancer Caregiver Guidebook

by Tigerlily Foundation

This book provides an overview of cancer caregiving. It discusses caregiving at breast cancer diagnosis, during treatment, during long-term survivorship, during recurrence, for advanced breast cancer, and during bereavement. It also discusses hiring home care services, long distance caregiving, taking care of yourself as a caregiver, spouses caring for a loved one, young adults caring for a parent, young children as co-survivors, communicating with family, and challenges/joys of caregiving. It includes tips for being a successful caregiver, being a caregiver while keeping your job, and how to avoid caregiver burnout. In addition, it provides a caregiver distress checklist, a coping checklist for caregivers, and a list of what not to say to caregivers.