Primary care professionals can use a proposed model to identify and address the unmet practical and emotional needs of heart failure caregivers.
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May inform primary care support for HF caregivers; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Caregivers have many unmet and hidden needs. Primary care health professionals are well placed to meet the needs of caregivers. The model may be used by health and social care professionals to identify needs and to provide caregivers with targeted practical and emotional support; and for researchers developing interventions to enhance self-management in heart failure.
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Wingham et al. (2017) studied this question.
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