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Heart failure - chronic - Management
What online information resources are available for people with chronic heart failure?
- Online information resources that may be useful for people with heart failure and their families and carers include:
- Living with heart failure
- Salt in the diet
- Coronary heart disease (a common cause of heart failure)
- Planning ahead, and end-of-life issues
- www.endoflifecareforadults.nhs.uk — the NHS National End of Life Care Programme supports the implementation of the UK Department of Health's End of Life Care Strategy by sharing good practice in collaboration with local and national stakeholders.
- Preferred priorities for care — this document is a combined information leaflet and form that the person and their carers can use to plan and document their preferred priorities for care.
- Planning ahead — this document, developed by Weston Hospicecare with patients and palliative care professionals, is a set of leaflets that can be used to facilitate discussions and to document decisions about end-of-life issues.
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