Introduction to the special issue entitled 'Heart failure management of the elderly patient: focus on frailty, sarcopenia, cachexia, and dementia'

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This is a special issue focused on heart failure management of the elderly patient with a focus on frailty, sarcopaenia, cachexia, and dementia, all common problems in the contemporary older heart failure (HF) patient. The Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has brought together experts to discuss these topical and clinically difficult areas. There are papers on ageing, demographics, and heart failure, drug treatment of the older patient, the frail heart failure patient and how to recognize frailty and screen for it without the risk segmenting these patients in a form of discrimination of them as less worthy of treatment through 'frailtyism'. This is also discussion of the common problems affecting skeletal muscle, both sarcopaenia and cachexia, as well as dementia and cognitive decline and the crucial issue of planning health care for the older patient with HF most effectively by the use of care plans.

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Seferović, P. M. (2019, December 1). Introduction to the special issue entitled “Heart failure management of the elderly patient: focus on frailty, sarcopenia, cachexia, and dementia.” European Heart Journal, Supplement. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/suz234

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