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Caregiving Stress and Its Toll on Health From a Psychoneuroimmunological Perspective

Caregiving Stress and Its Toll on Health From a Psychoneuroimmunological Perspective Curr Breast Cancer Rep (2017) 9:82–90 DOI 10.1007/s12609-017-0246-7 PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY AND SUPPORTIVE CARE (E SHINN AND C FAGUNDES, SECTION EDITORS) Caregiving Stress and Its Toll on Health From a Psychoneuroimmunological Perspective 1 2 Jeanette M. Bennett & Amanda N. Leggett Published online: 29 April 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 . . Abstract Keywords Caregiving stress Breast cancer . . Purpose of Review The purpose of this review was to discuss Psychoneuroimmunological perspective Cancer treatment the psychological and physiological effects of caregiving Psycho-oncology Review stress in the general population as well as among cancer caregivers. Recent Findings Although caregiving for a loved one with Introduction cancer may be shorter in duration (i.e., number of months), it is often more intense (i.e., number hours per day) than caring By its broad definition, caregiving is the provision of support for individuals with other chronic illnesses because cancer for another person in activities of daily living, and in the case treatment has shifted toward outpatient therapy and placed a of chronic illness, often medical care tasks. Caregivers must significant burden of informal caregiving on families, espe- help with management of symptoms and care tasks, while also cially spouses/partners. providing emotional and occasionally http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Current Breast Cancer Reports Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2017 by Springer Science+Business Media New York
Subject
Medicine & Public Health; Oncology; Internal Medicine; Surgical Oncology
ISSN
1943-4588
eISSN
1943-4596
DOI
10.1007/s12609-017-0246-7
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Abstract

Curr Breast Cancer Rep (2017) 9:82–90 DOI 10.1007/s12609-017-0246-7 PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY AND SUPPORTIVE CARE (E SHINN AND C FAGUNDES, SECTION EDITORS) Caregiving Stress and Its Toll on Health From a Psychoneuroimmunological Perspective 1 2 Jeanette M. Bennett & Amanda N. Leggett Published online: 29 April 2017 Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 . . Abstract Keywords Caregiving stress Breast cancer . . Purpose of Review The purpose of this review was to discuss Psychoneuroimmunological perspective Cancer treatment the psychological and physiological effects of caregiving Psycho-oncology Review stress in the general population as well as among cancer caregivers. Recent Findings Although caregiving for a loved one with Introduction cancer may be shorter in duration (i.e., number of months), it is often more intense (i.e., number hours per day) than caring By its broad definition, caregiving is the provision of support for individuals with other chronic illnesses because cancer for another person in activities of daily living, and in the case treatment has shifted toward outpatient therapy and placed a of chronic illness, often medical care tasks. Caregivers must significant burden of informal caregiving on families, espe- help with management of symptoms and care tasks, while also cially spouses/partners. providing emotional and occasionally

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Current Breast Cancer ReportsSpringer Journals

Published: Apr 29, 2017

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