For the person holding it together — and afterwards.
Caregivers
How to support someone after their treatment ends without losing yourself, how to look after your own health, and what happens to a carer after the person they cared for dies.
4 guides in this section
Supporting someone after their treatment endsWhat actually helps in the months after treatment, what to say instead of the usual things, and how to be useful without taking over.4 min readLooking after yourself as a carerCarers get ill, exhausted and overlooked. The delayed crash after treatment ends, what to put in place, and where support exists for you specifically.4 min readWhen the person you cared for diesThe first days and weeks — the admin nobody prepares you for, the feelings that are not what you expected, and what actually helps when the house is suddenly quiet.6 min readGrief after caring: the longer arcMonths and years afterwards — anniversaries, the second wave when everyone else has moved on, rebuilding an identity that was a carer, and how to tell ordinary grief from the kind that needs help.6 min read