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Promotion of self-care and nursing strategies are essential for managing distressing symptoms and preventing acute decompensation in older adults with heart failure.
This review highlights the importance of self-care in managing heart failure symptoms in older adults and provides nursing strategies for its promotion.
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Supports self-care promotion in older HF patients; leaves open validation of specific nursing strategies in prospective trials.
Heart failure (HF), predominant in adults older than 65, is a chronic and progressive syndrome frequently associated with the burden of distressing symptoms. HF symptom management is directed at treating the underlying causes of acute decompensation, which commonly relate to lack of medication adherence or dietary restriction. Therefore, for older adults capable of managing their health care needs, promotion of self-care is essential for symptom management. Using the Model of Heart Failure Self-Care as a guide, the purpose of this article is to discuss the relationship between self-care and HF symptom management and to provide nursing strategies for assessment and promotion of self-care in older adults with HF.
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Jurgens et al. (2010) conducted a review in Heart failure. Self-care promotion was evaluated. Promotion of self-care and nursing strategies are essential for managing distressing symptoms and preventing acute decompensation in older adults with heart failure.
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