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Interview: Shelley Johns, PsyD
Clinical psychologist
IU Simon Cancer Center
CompleteLife team member

Cancer affects not only the patient, but also family members and others providing care for cancer sufferer.

The stress of caring for a cancer patient can be overwhelming and emotionally and physically depleting.

There's a program at the IU Simon Cancer Center in Indianapolis called CompleteLife, which uses a team approach to care for patients and their caregivers.

Clinical Psychologist Shelley Johns joins Barbara Lewis in the studio to explain how it works.

Additional Resources:

• The PBS documentary The Caregivers highlights the difficulties faced by family caregivers as well as by cancer patients themselves.
• Find services for aging caregivers at the Administration on Aging.
• Find out more about the CompleteLife program at the IU Simon Cancer Center.

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