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Heart failure affects up to 20% of older persons in long-term care facilities, presenting significant diagnostic and management challenges due to frailty and multiple comorbidities.
This review highlights the challenges and management considerations for heart failure in frail, elderly patients residing in long-term care facilities.
Underscores need for adapted HF strategies in frail LTC residents; leaves open prospective studies on optimal diagnostics and management.
Heart failure, a condition that affects up to 20% of older persons residing in long-term care facilities, is an important cause of morbidity, health service utilization and death. Effective and interprofessional heart failure care processes could potentially improve care, outcomes and quality of life and delay decline or hospital admission. This article reviews the clinical aspects of heart failure, and the challenges to the diagnosis and management of this condition in long-term care residents who are frail and are affected by multiple comorbidities.
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Heckman et al. (2014) conducted a review in Heart failure. Heart failure affects up to 20% of older persons in long-term care facilities, presenting significant diagnostic and management challenges due to frailty and multiple comorbidities.
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