… Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of morbidity, hospitalization, and mortality in older
adults and a growing public health problem placing a huge financial burden on the health care …

… In summary, congestive heart failure is an exceedingly common and important clinical
problem in older adults, in large part because of the complex interplay between age-related …

… Heart failure is a common condition in older adults that results … common form of HF in older
adults. We then describe the … Finally, we describe the prognosis of HF in older adults with …

Heart failure (HF) affects approximately 5 million Americans, and more than 550,000 new
cases are reported each year [1, 2]. Additionally, despite recent advances in the diagnosis and …

… right-sided heart failure as a separate entity of the heart failure spectrum. These separate
types of heart failure were all included in our prevalence estimates of ‘all type’ heart failure. …

… thirty‐nine eligible patients were aged 65 and older and hospitalized with heart failure. …
care intervention for elders hospitalized with heart failure increased the length of time between …

… The purpose of this study was to determine the types of symptoms older adults with heart
failure experience, and the length of time patients had symptoms before their hospital admission…

… HRQOL between older adults with and without heart failure. The … in older adults with heart
failure with those in healthy older … older adults with heart failure and 116 healthy older adults …

… survival prognosis for older adults with heart failure. Although we find … heart failure for 6
years is poor for all older adults. Median survival after an initial hospitalization with heart failure …

… In our study of older adults hospitalized for heart failure, we found that cognitive impairment
was common (present in 47% of the study sample) and yet documented in only a minority of …