For Caregivers: Coping with Your Loved One’s Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Topics Covered

• Caring for Your Loved One with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
• Tips on Working with the Health Care Team to Manage Your Loved One’s Pain, Neuropathy & Discomfort
• The Important Role of the Caregiver with the Health Care Team
• Deciding to Become a Caregiver
• The Unique Stresses and Rewards of Caregiving
• The Long-Distance Caregiver
• Managing Family, Friends, Partners & Traditions
• Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology, Prepared List of Questions, Follow-Up Care & Discussion of OpenNotes
• Key Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team About Quality-of-Life Concerns
• Self-Care & Stress Management Suggestions & Tips to Promote Caregiver Resilience
• Questions for Our Panel of Experts

Our Panel of Experts

Susan Slovin, MD, PhD

Attending Physician, Genitourinary Oncology Service, Sidney Kimmel Center for Prostate and Urologic Diseases, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill College of Cornell University

Andrew J. Roth, MD, FAPOS

Emeritus, Attending Psychiatry, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College

Neena Kapoor-Hintzen, MSN, ANP-C

Supportive Care Nurse Practitioner, Advanced Practice Provider Manager, Supportive Care, Geriatric Oncology and Integrative Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Dina Smith, MSW

Caregiver Program Coordinator, CancerCare

Continuing Education Credits

(Live Only)

Social Workers: This program has been submitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, an approved provider through the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners, provider #CS4607, for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Cancer Care, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0088. This workshop is approved for 1.0 Contact Hour.

Registered Dietitians: This program has been submitted to the Commission on Dietetic Registration for one Continuing Professional Education Unit (CPEU).

To request continuing education paperwork, please email your name, profession, and address to connect@cancercare.org after the program. All paperwork for continuing education credit must be requested, completed, and submitted within two weeks of the live program.

Brochure

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