Available 24 hours a day or living 24 hours away – the carer of someone with heart failure comes in all guises. But where they are all the same is in the important role they play in helping someone with heart failure live with their condition.

Heart failure is complex. It is debilitating and potentially life-threatening. It causes the heart muscle to become stiff or weak, meaning it’s unable to pump enough blood to meet the demands of the body.¹ This leaves heart failure patients exhausted and short of breath, severely limiting the activities they are able to do.^{1 …}