Why the study?
Heart failure caregiving responsibilities have expanded to include more intensive care for increasingly precarious patients, making it critically important to understand caregiver needs to support the increasingly complex medical care they provide.
This AHA scientific statement highlights the critical role of unpaid caregivers in managing heart failure and calls for increased support, interventions, and policy changes to address their physical, psychological, and financial burdens.
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Supports caregiver assessment in HF care; extends evidence synthesis to policy and intervention research needs.
Kitko et al. (2020) studied this question.
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