Patients

For the Lived Experience

ToolKit

Monitoring My Health

Keeping track of your health status is important to maintain a healthy heart and can help guide changes to your lifestyle or care plan.

My Medications

Keep track of all the medications you are taking (prescription and over the counter), as well as vitamins and other herbal remedies. Make sure to show your doctor at your next appointment.

Symptom Checker

If you experience new or worsening heart failure, you may experience some of these symptoms.

What to Expect

Tests you may have to diagnose and monitor heart failure

Faces of Heart Failure

Faces of Heart Failure
HeartLife

Meet Sharon

I intend to live as fully as I can for as long as I can, caring for my heart as best as I can, but

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Faces of Heart Failure
HeartLife

Meet Marc

Needless to say, heart failure and the ‘what ifs’ were always on the back of my mind. I worried about having events at the gym,

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Faces of Heart Failure
HeartLife

Meet Jackie

To hear my heart story, we first have to go back to 1994 when I was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma at 24 (almost 25). Before

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Faces of Heart Failure
HeartLife

Meet Jillianne

Accepting the inevitable truth is seemingly simple. As a patient recognizing the outcome of heart failure if left untreated was as simple as it comes

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Resources

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Our Support Group

The HeartLife Foundation is a patient-driven charity whose mission is to transform the quality of life for people living with heart failure by engaging, educating, and empowering a global community to create lasting solutions and build healthier lives. 

Join our Help for Hearts closed Facebook group to get support and share ideas.

Join Us & Subscribe

Have your voice heard. If you are a patient, family member or friend of someone with lived experience of heart failure or if you are a practitioner, allied health professional, not-for-profit or corporate partner, or simply a concerned citizen – Become a member – it’s free.

 

Women @ HeartLife

The HeartLife Foundation is proud to support the Canadian Women with Medical Heart Issues Facebook group. 

HL joins the mission of this group lead by our HeartLife Champion, Jackie to inspire and support women living with heart disease or heart failure to Live Bravely & Love Boldly every day. You are not alone!