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What Professionals in Healthcare Can Do: Family Caregivers as Members of the Treatment Team

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Cancer Caregiving in the United States

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Changes in healthcare delivery in the United States have left their mark on oncology services, the most significant being the shift in patient care from inpatient to outpatient and ambulatory settings. As a result, the family and other caregivers must now assume an expanded role in providing assistance for cancer patients especially at home (Given et al., CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 51(4), 213–231, 2001; Glajhen, Journal of Supportive Oncology, 2(2), 145–155, 2004).

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    Even programs that do exist are undersubscribed. For example, in many states of the United States, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) provides health insurance for children at an affordable cost and yet there is limited enrollment these health plans.

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  3. Department of Community Oncology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, 1515 Holocombe Blvd, 77030, Houston, TX, USA

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Baile, W.F., Tacchi, P., Aaron, J. (2012). What Professionals in Healthcare Can Do: Family Caregivers as Members of the Treatment Team. In: Talley, R., McCorkle, R., Baile, W. (eds) Cancer Caregiving in the United States. Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3154-1_6

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