Background Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of all hospitalisations and
readmissions in older people, accounting for a large proportion of developed countries' …

Aim: The aim of this literature review was to review and discuss the differences between
men and women with heart failure with regard to epidemiology, aetiology, diagnostics …

Older women are generally more sedentary and less active than older men, but little is
known about the specific factors underlying the differences between the genders in physical …

Background Diastolic heart failure (DHF) is common in older women. There have been no
clinical trials that have identified therapies to improve symptoms in these patients. A total of …

Background Chronic illness and disability can have damaging, even catastrophic,
socioeconomic effects on individuals and their households. We examined the experiences …

Aims and objectives To determine, from a systematic literature review, the experience of
living with heart failure and to propose some practice guidelines and research questions …

Title. Living with chronic heart failure: a review of qualitative studies of older people Aim.
This paper is a report of a systematic review of qualitative studies of how older people live …

By definition, aging is a natural, gradual and continuous process. On the other hand, frailty
reflects the increase in vulnerability to stressors and shortens the time without disease …

Aim. This paper presents a review of the qualitative literature which examines the
experiences of patients with coronary heart disease. The paper also assesses whether the …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate exercise self-efficacy in older women with stable
New York Heart Association Functional Class II and III heart failure who were enrolled in a …