Summary: This month, lead author Polly Mazanec, PhD, ACNP, AOCN, answers these and similar questions as she discusses her May 2011 ONF article "Lack of Communication and Control: Experiences of Distance Caregivers of Parents With Advanced Cancer." This is the first study of its kind to describe the experience of distance caregiving, an emerging phenomenon in the United States. In this podcast, the benefits and burdens of distance caregiving are explored as well as ways to support adult children of parents with advanced cancer.
