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Only 5% of elderly heart failure patients could correctly perform all six essential self-care tasks, with prior education only modestly improving observed self-care ability.
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Knowledge and patient education alone are insufficient to ensure adequate self-care behaviors in elderly heart failure patients due to functional and cognitive barriers.
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Jaarsma et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Heart failure. Heart failure self-care education was evaluated on Ability to perform six essential self-care tasks. Only 5% of elderly heart failure patients could correctly perform all six essential self-care tasks, with prior education only modestly improving observed self-care ability.
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