Working while caring for someone with cancer
This audiobook is about working while caring for someone with cancer. You are a carer if you give any unpaid help and support to someone with cancer who could not manage without your help. You do not have to be living with the person you care for.
This audiobook aims to help you cope with balancing work and caring.
In this audiobook
- 1 About this audiobook and other support from Macmillan
- 2 The Macmillan work and cancer series
- 3 Introduction
- 4 What is a carer
- 5 The services we mention
- 6 Working while caring
- 7 Diagnosis and treatment
- 8 Help from others and after treatment
- 9 Questions about caring during treatment
- 10 Talking to your employer
- 11 Talking to other people at work
- 12 Making decisions about work
- 13 Questions about work arrangements
- 14 Your legal rights as a working carer
- 15 How carers are protected from discrimination
- 16 Taking care of yourself
- 17 Questions about caring for someone at home
- 18 Questions about finances
- 19 If the cancer is advanced
- 20 If you are no longer a carer
- 21 About our information
- 22 Other ways we can help you
- 23 Other organisations
- 24 Further resources
- 25 Can you do something to help
- 26 Information about this recording
This audiobook is about working while caring for someone with cancer. You are a carer if you give any unpaid help and support to someone with cancer who could not manage without your help. You do not have to be living with the person you care for.
This audiobook aims to help you cope with balancing work and caring.
How we can help
There are lots of benefits that could help you after a cancer diagnosis, but the system can be confusing. Our Welfare Rights Advisors are here to help.