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Supporting Your Loved One

Following are specific strategies to support your loved one by taking the lead in the practical aspects of their care. While it may seem overwhelming to take on these tasks, it's important that your loved one be focused on their healing and treatment. Your job is now supporting this effort.

Evaluating Cancer Treatment Choices
Your loved one may have more than one treatment option, and it can be difficult and time consuming to choose among them. Making treatment decisions usually requires numerous conversations; with one an . . . keep reading
Learning to Navigate the Insurance Maze
Most caregivers don't have a good idea of what their loved one's insurance covers until the need arises. And then we have to learn to be proactive in working with doctor's and hospitals to make sure . . . keep reading
Create a Medical Binder
We called ours our Health Binder....it was a big thick binder with everything cancer in it. It's important to have one place that you can both access all of your loved one's information, your questio . . . keep reading
Filing Strategies for Insurance Paperwork
Keeping All The Paper Work Straight The early stages of diagnosis and treatment are often the most challenging in terms of just keeping all the paperwork straight. While I wasn't too exci . . . keep reading
Balancing Work and Caregiving
It's common in caregivers that have full-time, or even part-time jobs to feel stressed and torn between their job and caregiving. Here are some tips to help reduce that stress. Be Up Front W . . . keep reading
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