A spouse with cancer is generally not as burdensome for a partner as more disabling conditions such as dementia, where you combine both the stress of caring for the spouse and waning social support from your partner.
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When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains elevated for up to two years.Dr. Christakis
It's very hard to see someone you love who is sick it is hard to care for them, and it is hard on your health. People are interconnected, and their health is, too.
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People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors for ill health tobacco exposure, poverty. Here's another risk factor having an ill partner.
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What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in really real ways, there can be a kind of spread of disease between people.
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The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example, just after the hospitalization of the spouse.
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