Organizations

AARP: Caregiving

American Cancer Society: Caregivers

CancerCare: Caregiver Support Services

Family Caregiver Alliance

Family Caregiving 101

National Alliance for Caregiving

National Association for Home Care Hospice

National Family Caregivers Association

Web-Based Communications Tools

Inspire is an online health and wellness community that features more than 50 groups for people with cancer and their caregivers. Once you join a group, you can post questions and comments on discussion boards and connect with other group members.

Know Cancer is dedicated to connecting, educating and empowering all people affected by the many forms of cancer. Through the power of knowledge and collective wisdom they will help people to prevent, endure and survive cancer. Their current focus is KnowCancer.com, an online community that provides social and professional support to patients and their loved ones.

Navigating Cancer's vision is to empower cancer patients to navigate their best care. Navigating Cancer is a free website specifically for cancer patients and their supporters, offering tools and authoritative cancer resources that empower patients to take control of their health and partner more closely with their physicians, support network and other like patients.

Personalized Web Pages
The caregiver of a person with cancer can quickly and easily provide updates to family members and friends through a personalized, private web page. Websites that offer this interactive communications tool include CarePages, CaringBridge, MyLifeLine.org, and theStatus.com. Many hospitals offer this option to patients as well.

Lotsa Helping Hands is an easy-to-use, online group calendar that allows caregivers to organize family members, friends, colleagues, and neighbors who want to help provide care and support to a person with cancer.

More online options

In addition to social networking sites, many patient advocate organizations offer online support services for caregivers, such as discussion forums and chat rooms. Get a list of patient information resources to find out what online support services they offer.