Care for Heart Disease

Heart disease can be tough on your body and drain your energy. Your symptoms can make it hard for you to do things you want to do—and your family and other caregivers may not know how to help.

If you are being served by either Agrace Supportive Care or Agrace Hospice Care and have any cardiac disease that affects your quality of life, Agrace can help you better manage and cope with your troubling symptoms. Our specialty Advanced Cardiac Care program offers an extra layer of support for you and your caregivers.

• We work with you to better control symptoms such as chest pain, edema/fluid build-up, breathing trouble, irregular heartbeat/palpitations, fatigue and anxiety.
• An Agrace nurse who specializes in heart disease will review your past and current cardiac care, and then consult with your supportive care nurse practitioner or hospice nurse about ways for you to better manage your symptoms at home.
• We are certified in Palliative/Hospice Heart Failure by the American Heart Association, so care is based on American Heart Association standards and also tailored to your current goals of care.
• Agrace’s staff will work with your primary care doctor or specialists to help you take new steps to manage your symptoms.

Learn more about how this program helped Linda, an Agrace Hospice Care patient with heart disease, and her husband here.

As a person’s health declines with heart disease, they often need assistance from others. If you are their caregiver, you may need more support. Agrace offers caregiving information that may interest you.

Check out our caregiver resources here.

Learn more about heart disease management in our Cardiac Patient and Caregiver Guide. Read it in Spanish here.

Please talk with your loved one’s Supportive Care nurse practitioner or Agrace Hospice Care nurse whenever you have questions about caregiving or self-care. We can offer you additional support from an Agrace social worker, spiritual & grief counselor or volunteer, as needed.