What frail, older patients talk about when they talk about self-care—a qualitative study in heart failure care
Jeanette Eckerblad, Leonie Klompstra, Linda Heinola, Sandra Rojlén, Nana Waldréus · 2023
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Description
For frail older people with heart failure, daily self-care keeps the condition stable, but what self-care means to them is rarely asked. Jeanette Eckerblad and co-authors interview 19 such patients, with a median age of 82, about their own view of looking after themselves.
Two themes emerged. The first was keeping health: hygiene, activity, taking medicines, eating well, and resting. The second was keeping well-being and happiness: hobbies, staying independent, seeing other people, and having a supportive home. Patients tied self-care to feeling good, not only to medical tasks. The authors say clear conversation between staff and patients is needed so care plans fit both views. They also urge teams to treat mood and happiness as core parts of the plan, since these drive whether patients stick with it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jeanette Eckerblad, Leonie Klompstra, Linda Heinola, Sandra Rojlén, Nana Waldréus |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 31 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |