Aim To provide reliable survival estimates for people with chronic heart failure and explain
variation in survival by key factors including age at diagnosis, left ventricular ejection …

Patients with heart failure (HF) and their families experience stress and suffering from a
variety of sources over the course of the HF experience. Palliative care is an interdisciplinary …

Heart failure is a serious condition and equivalent to malignant disease in terms of symptom
burden and mortality. At this moment only a comparatively small number of heart failure …

Aims: The purpose of this study was to conduct a systematic review answering the following
questions:(a) what specific activities do caregivers (CGs) contribute to patients' self-care in …

Family caregivers are crucial for supporting home death. We reviewed published qualitative
research on home-based family caregiving at end of life (1998—2008), synthesizing key …

Despite advances in cardiac therapy, heart failure (HF) remains a progressive, highly
symptomatic, and deadly disease that places great demands on patients, caregivers, and …

Background The long-term and often lifelong relationship of general practitioners (GPs) with
their patients is considered to make them the ideal initiators of advance care planning …

Objective Encountering dying patients with implicit existential questions requires the nurses
to have positive and comfortable attitude to talking about existential issues. This paper …

Background This study aimed to explore the acceptability of a wearable device for remotely
measuring mobility in the Mobilise-D technical validation study (TVS), and to explore the …

Background Current models of end-of-life care (EOLC) have been largely developed for
cancer and may not meet the needs of heart failure patients. Aim To review the literature …