When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer

When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer is a booklet for friends and family members taking care of a person with advanced cancer. This booklet covers making new decisions about care, how to discuss issues and changes with the health care team, getting support and asking for help, life planning and advance directives, talking with family and friends, talking with children and teens about advanced cancer, communicating with your loved one who has cancer, and tips on caring for both your physical and emotional self.

Agency website: https://www.cancer.gov/

• Overview
• Helping Your Loved One Cope With Advanced Cancer
• Working With the Health Care Team
• Getting Support
• Life Planning
• Talking with Family and Friends
• Caring for Yourself
• Reflection
• Caregiver’s Bill of Rights
• Personal Affairs Worksheet
• Signs That Death Is Near and What You Can Do
• Resources

caregivers, medical professionals