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Our guides provide you with the skills, checklists and tips for caring for your loved one. Our content is authored by highly qualified registered nurses with a combined total of 60 years of expertise in various healthcare settings such as acute, community and home care.

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  • Heart Failure - Lifestyle Changes

    Heart Failure Lifestyle Questions

    Use this list to help prepare questions for the provider about changes in lifestyle with heart failure. This will help you make the most of the appointment.

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  • Heart Failure - Diagnosis

    Questions to Ask About Heart Failure Diagnosis

    Use this list to help prepare questions for the provider about heart failure diagnosis. This will help you make the most of the appointment.

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  • Heart Failure Care and Monitoring

    Heart Failure Care and Monitoring Questions

    Use this list to help prepare questions for the provider about heart failure care and monitoring. This will help you make the most of the appointment.

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  • Heart Failure PCP Questions

    Heart Failure Questions for the Provider

    Use this list to help prepare questions for the provider ahead of time. This will help you make the most of your loved one's next appointment.

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  • HF Exacerbation

    How Do I Address Heart Failure Exacerbation?

    Your loved one has heart failure and their symptoms have suddenly worsened. It may just be a bad day, but it could be an exacerbation.

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  • End Stage HF

    End Stage Heart Failure

    For your loved one with end stage heart failure, it’s important to know what to expect and plan for the future.

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  • Heart Failure Diagnosis

    What's Involved with Heart Failure Diagnosis?

    In most cases, heart failure develops slowly over time from long-term medical conditions, and in the early stage, may have no signs or symptoms.

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  • Preventing HF

    Heart Failure Causes and Prevention

    In most cases, heart failure develops slowly over time from long-term medical conditions, and in the early stage, may have no signs or symptoms.

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  • COPD Treatment

    What You Can Do to Help with COPD Treatment

    Although COPD is not curable, it is treatable. Informed, aggressive, early treatment can change the course and slow progression of the disease.

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  • COPD 4 Stages

    Stages of COPD

    COPD is not curable but it is manageable. Knowing the stages of COPD and how it will progress helps you anticipate needs, treatment, and interventions.

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  • Worsening

    Signs that COPD is Getting Worse

    There are many indicators that your loved one's COPD is getting worse. Talk with your loved one about these changes and notify the provider.

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  • COPD Self-Care

    COPD Self-Care

    Your loved one wants to be independent, in control, and not a burden. They can help you by helping themselves, so guide and support them in self-care.

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