Description

Overview:

This best seller is a complete self-management resource for heart failure patients. The clean, uncluttered layout provides important information that won’t overwhelm patients with too many details. Large type and colorful illustrations make this book a valuable tool for older adults. Useful for both inpatient and outpatient programs.

The latest edition (2022/23) includes:

• • Signs of heart failure, treatment goals
• • Information on how the heart works and what happens with heart failure
• • Tracking symptoms,managing symptoms
• • Taking medications, medication chart
• • Limiting fluids
• • Following a low-sodium diet
• • Reading labels, food guide
• • Making healthy choices when eating out
• • Exercising, activity guidelines
• • Ways to save energy
• • Managing weight, traveling, being intimate
• • Quitting smoking
• • Stress management, coping with heart failure
• • Overcoming sleeping problems
• • Warning signs, when to call the doctor