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The Caregiver's Guide to Cancer: Compassionate Advice for Caring for You and Your Loved One (Caregiver's Guides) Paperback – August 17, 2021

by Victoria Landes LCSW (Author)
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Care for a loved one with cancer while caring for yourself

Looking after someone with cancer can be complex, overwhelming, and emotionally draining all at once. As a caregiver, you may also overlook your own well-being while you focus on your loved one. This book empowers you to be an attentive, thoughtful, and compassionate caregiver for your friend or family member with cancer. You'll also find practical everyday advice for meeting your own physical and emotional needs while dealing with the unique challenges you face.
  • Understanding cancer—Learn how cancer affects the body at every stage, determine the steps that come after diagnosis, and examine cancer treatments and side effects.
  • Knowledge caregivers need—Find info on navigating health care, financial and legal decisions, and much more.
  • What to say and ask—Find questions to ask your loved one's care team and health providers, and discover how to be an advocate in different situations.

Support your loved one while also practicing self-care with the help of this compassionate choice in caregiving and cancer books.
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    Caregiver's Guides
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    178 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    Rockridge Press
  5. Publication date
    August 17, 2021
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.48 x 9 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1648764193
  8. ISBN-13
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Stage by stage guidance

Learn how cancer affects the body at every stage, understand next steps after diagnosis, and find out how your role as caregiver fits into the picture.

Health care and other decisions

Get info on navigating the health care system, possible cancer treatments and their side effects, financial and legal options you may face, and more.

Advocacy advice

Discover possible questions you may want to ask your loved one’s care team and health providers, and understand how to support and advocate for them in specific situations.

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Find practical everyday advice for meeting your own physical and emotional needs while dealing with the unique challenges you face as a caregiver for someone with cancer.

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"This book is the definitive resource for anyone who is thrust into the caregiving space and is seeking actionable and practical yet compassionate, caring advice that encompasses everything a patient and caregiver needs. The Caregiver's Guide to Cancer is a valuable asset that should be provided to every caregiver." —Debra Kimless, MD, physician and patient ombudsman

"In keeping with Vicki's gentle, thoughtful, and sensitive style, she creates a healing handbook for caregivers. She provides a practical and comprehensive guide so needed by so many. Caregiving is difficult to say the least. Often at the expense of caring for another, one may lose themselves in the process. This book is an essential guide honoring the caregiver with a set of tools to use and reflect on. A truly approachable and thoughtful read... critically needed now more than ever." —Cindi Cantril, MPH, RN, OCN

"The Caregiver's Guide to Cancer offers an essential roadmap for those traveling the complex path of caring for someone with cancer. It is rare to find a resource that delivers the most up-to-date knowledge, practical tools, and caring advice with such clarity and compassion. As an expert guide with the voice of a trusted, encouraging friend, Landis masterfully guides the caregiver and patient on this journey across the spectrum of cancer care." —Alison Gause, MPH

"Victoria Landes has decades of experience as a cancer coordinator and licensed clinical social worker, working with thousands of cancer patients, their loved ones, and healthcare providers. In this book, she provides the caregiver with a comprehensive yet succinct guide to navigate the complex aspects of cancer care and the role of the caregiver. Every section is well-thought-out and organized from the basics of cancer definition and roles of different treatments and providers, to matters related to the patient from nutrition to finances, to intimacy, to palliative care and hospice, and to most importantly addressing self-care for the caregiver. This is an invaluable resource with practical tools to help the caregiver navigate the multifaceted aspect of caring for a cancer patient." —Dr. Ranna Tabrizi, MD, FACS

About the Author

VICTORIA LANDES, LCSW, has worked in the medical field for 30 years. Vicki served as the breast care coordinator for Kaiser Permanente for 12 years, where she accompanied breast cancer survivors and their loved ones through the diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship phases of care.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rockridge Press (August 17, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 178 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1648764193
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1648764196
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.48 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Vicki Landes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has worked in the medical field for 30 years. Vicki’s experience in cancer care dates back to the early years in her career when she served as a hospice social worker and bereavement counselor. Since then she has worked in various medical arenas including hospitals, integrative medical clinics, and outpatient oncology care. More recently, Vicki served as the Breast Care Coordinator for Kaiser Permanente for 12 years where she accompanied breast cancer survivors and their loved ones through the diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship phases of care. Vicki feels deeply honored to have the opportunity to share the knowledge, wisdom, and insights she has gained from the extraordinary and inspirational people she has met throughout her career.

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lawyermom
5.0 out of 5 stars So useful to understand the hardest time
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2022
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Really helped me get through an awful time. Understanding the process made a horrible time a bit better.
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Cinzia
5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I had this book some time ago. I plan to give it to anyone who needs it!
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2021
I wish I had this book years ago when I was caring for my husband who had colon cancer.

The first chapter “cancer explained” defines cancer and what basically happens to create a cancer diagnosis. I know this sounds strange but there is a lot I did not know and already the first chapter was an eye opener. This book would have been a godsend!

The first thing that I really liked were the length of bios. Victoria Landes doesn’t spend pages and pages drawing out a long story of a patient’s history. She sets the stage briefly and gives you an informative background on the patient and their caregiver. Then there are helpful guidelines that assist you in navigating through that type of cancer.

The book addresses issues like the changing dynamic for a married couple/long time partnership. Quite frankly it’s hard to speak to relatives about these subjects and the book would have been a good way for us to navigate more smoothly through some difficulties. We really struggled and were not prepared. I feel the book would have been great at alerting me to what might come up and what might’ve been possible.

What Victoria has written is really a handbook. It’s not heavy and can be brought to all of your appointments. It is very good at suggesting possible questions for the medical team. I just sat there and they told me what to do and at first I was in shock so I went around like a zombie. Then I got better at being more composed and more aware. So I was able to be more active. This book helps with these matters.

Victoria Landes’ book addresses so many issues; it truly is a remarkable resource for you and the loved one you’re caring for. When someone you love is given a cancer diagnosis there is so much to learn. Victoria’s book sorts things out so that you can think clearly and prepare yourself for the challenging road ahead.

Please do not hesitate to get this book. I plan to give it to anyone who needs it.
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Cathleen Foy
3.0 out of 5 stars It was very interesting
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2022
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I really learned to be patient and gave information on paper work
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CV
5.0 out of 5 stars Trustworthy, down-to earth counsel
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2021
How long we have needed a book like this!
The title is apt and true. It's not the whole story, however.
Everyone who will encounter someone with a cancer diagnosis or their caregiver needs this book. Not to read through once... to keep nearby when clarity or words elude even the most loving companion or experienced practitioner. New healthcare providers and healers deserve a copy before leaving school or completing new employee orientation. Pass them out to any newly-diagnosed individual and their support person from an in-clinic library--they deserve their own copy for keeps, for notetaking and for comforting heft in the backpack.
It is that important and that good. As a Registered Nurse, I certainly could have benefitted from this guidance---and been grateful to direct others to its gifts---when i first started in service decades back.
Yes, it is time for a book like this one. It belongs in every waiting room, medical office and on every kitchen table in homes where there is news of a cancer diagnosis. At the time it is most needed, Ms Landes very kindly, very simply lays out practical and truly helpful ways to be more empathetic and supportive while keeping oneself looked after. Freshly and in a pared -down format, she shares ways we can all be more skilled in our approach, language and presence---whoever we are and whatever role we inhabit. Think of all the faces and hearts a person and caregiver will encounter on this road.
( MA/RN//NP/PA/MD, chaplain, unit clerk, staff from the lab, X-ray, pharmacy, environmental services) Each one of them--and the caregiver ---has questions: what is next, what to ask, what to say, what to do.
Here's your map, glossary and guidebook.
Most of all, to the caregiver here is the invitation and direction on how to stay cared-for while you are giving care. Open this gem of a book ( even the cover colors shine soothingly!)
It will encourage and educate you and above all, empower you in the care you give ---and receive.
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B.Gilbert
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a must read health book.......
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2021
This book is ‘the blueprint’ for caregivers! As someone who has not been diagnosed with cancer nor experienced a love one that has been diagnosed, I have to say that The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer gave me great sense of relief and comfort, knowing that one day I may face either issue. The book provides a realistic look into what might be in store for each of us and gives the reader the confidence to prepare and face what may lie ahead.

Ms. Landes beautifully covers the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs of both the patients and caregivers. It is easy to read, logical in its format and well organized for easy reference. Amongst its many topics, the book, for example, takes away the many stresses and mysteries and replaces them with thoughtful suggestions on how best to say certain things to your loved one, how to bring up uncomfortable subjects, what to ask the doctor and other care providers, and how to deal with the stress. You quickly realize the book is written by someone with a great depth of experience in all aspects of cancer care, a leader in her field and sensitivity towards all parties involved in the network of care providers. As a bonus, the guidance provided is so appropriate and sound it can also be applicable when dealing with other life altering diseases. Despite the subject matter, The Caregiver’s Guide to Cancer is a positive and uplifting book and needs to be on everyone's bookshelf.

( I had received an advance copy from the publisher)
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