How to Help
How to Help a Loved One or Friend With Prostate Cancer
As a caregiver, you play a key part in your loved one or friend's treatment program. But most importantly, you are there to provide support to a man living with prostate cancer.
How can you maximize your efforts to help him?
- Learn as much as you can. Learn about his condition, his treatment, and prostate cancer in general. This Web site is an excellent place for you to start.
- Ask questions. Ask his doctor(s) questions to learn more about prostate cancer and its treatment. Keep a list of questions for his doctor(s), if necessary, and be sure to ask him how he's feeling and what you can do to help.
- Keep him company. Let him know that he's not alone. Go to appointments with him, share healthy meals so he's more inclined to eat well, take walks, or find other activities that you can do together.
- Ask for, and delegate, help. Seek family and friends to help with housekeeping, financial, and medical details, if possible. Consider a home healthcare nurse.
- Join a support group. Get helpful tips from caregivers in your area or online.
- Don't forget to take care of yourself, too. The healthier, stronger, and more positive you are, the more supportive and caring you can be for your loved one or friend.
Learn more about prostate cancer and get support resources for your loved one or friend with prostate cancer on this site and on the Web.
