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200 02$aA practical guide to heart failure in older people$b[electronic resource] /$f[edited by] Christopher Ward and Miles Witham
210   $aChichester, West Sussex, U.K. ;$aHoboken, N.J. $cWiley-Blackwell$d2009
215   $a1 online resource (296 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-470-69517-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aEpidemiology / Christopher Ward -- Heart failure and the aging heart / Helen Oxenham -- Aetiology / Christopher Ward -- Diagnosis / Christopher Ward -- Pharmacological treatment / Miles D. Witham -- Non-pharmacological management / Sine?ad P. McKee and Miles D. Witham -- Comorbidity / Andrew Elder -- Treatment and management in primary care / Alan Begg -- The role of the specialist nurse / Sine?ad P. McKee -- The role of the heart failure specialist / Maheshwar Pauriah, Aaron K.F. Wong and Chim C. Lang -- Hospitalization / Andrew Hannah -- Models of care and disease management programmes / Martin Wilson and Stephen J. Leslie -- Palliative and supportive care for patients with advanced and terminal heart failure / Christopher Ward ... [et al.].
330   $aHeart failure is effectively a disease of older people. Eighty percent of patients are over 65 years old, and the majority of these are over 75. This figure is likely to increase significantly in the next two decades. The prognosis is worse than that of most cancers and heart failure is the commonest reason for hospital admission in the over 65s. The problems associated with treating heart failure in older patients are more diverse and complex than in those who are younger. The diagnosis in older patients is easily overlooked and as they were excluded from most heart failure treatment trials
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