Introduction
Caregivers provide physical and emotional support to friends or family members with heart failure. If you are supporting someone who has heart failure, you play an important role in making sure that the person follows schedules, takes medicines, and follows the overall treatment and rehabilitation plan.
What do I need to know about heart failure?
Heart failure is a serious condition. It means that the heart cannot fill or pump enough blood and oxygen to support the body and its functions. This can cause damage to many parts of the body, including important organs.
The person with heart failure may:
Need to take medicines on a regular basis.
Need to have some procedures or surgery.
Require rehabilitation treatment.
Need to make …show more content…
Physical, emotional, behavior, and other changes that occur in the person with heart failure.
The medicines that the person with heart failure has to take and when to take them.
Whether you will need extra help at home.
The treatments for heart failure.
Changes you have to make at home to make the person safe.
How to lower the person's risk of having other heart problems.
Diet and exercise changes for the person with heart failure.
Whether the person with heart failure will need help using the bathroom, bathing, eating, or doing other activities.
Whether you need to get certain devices or equipment for the person with heart failure.
That heart failure requires emergency medical care if symptoms appear.
Caring for yourself
It is normal to have many different emotions while caring for someone with heart failure. The lifestyle changes that come with this diagnosis can be stressful and difficult.
As a caregiver, you need to:
Monitor yourself for signs of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion (caregiver burnout). This can happen if you feel overwhelmed.
Take care of yourself so that you can better meet the needs of your loved one and also meet your own needs.
Signs of caregiver burnout
Sleep
Caregivers provide physical and emotional support to friends or family members with heart failure. If you are supporting someone who has heart failure, you play an important role in making sure that the person follows schedules, takes medicines, and follows the overall treatment and rehabilitation plan.
What do I need to know about heart failure?
Heart failure is a serious condition. It means that the heart cannot fill or pump enough blood and oxygen to support the body and its functions. This can cause damage to many parts of the body, including important organs.
The person with heart failure may:
Need to take medicines on a regular basis.
Need to have some procedures or surgery.
Require rehabilitation treatment.
Need to make …show more content…
Physical, emotional, behavior, and other changes that occur in the person with heart failure.
The medicines that the person with heart failure has to take and when to take them.
Whether you will need extra help at home.
The treatments for heart failure.
Changes you have to make at home to make the person safe.
How to lower the person's risk of having other heart problems.
Diet and exercise changes for the person with heart failure.
Whether the person with heart failure will need help using the bathroom, bathing, eating, or doing other activities.
Whether you need to get certain devices or equipment for the person with heart failure.
That heart failure requires emergency medical care if symptoms appear.
Caring for yourself
It is normal to have many different emotions while caring for someone with heart failure. The lifestyle changes that come with this diagnosis can be stressful and difficult.
As a caregiver, you need to:
Monitor yourself for signs of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion (caregiver burnout). This can happen if you feel overwhelmed.
Take care of yourself so that you can better meet the needs of your loved one and also meet your own needs.
Signs of caregiver burnout
Sleep