Achieving Medical Stability: Wives’ Experiences With Heart Failure

Judith E. Hupcey, Kimberly Fenstermacher, Lisa Kitko and Janice Penrod
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Judith E. Hupcey: The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA, jhupcey@psu.edu
Kimberly Fenstermacher: The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA
Lisa Kitko: The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA
Janice Penrod: The Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, USA

Clinical Nursing Research, 2010, vol. 19, issue 3, 211-229

Abstract: The incidence of heart failure continues to rise as innovative treatments are developed. Despite life-prolonging interventions, morbidity and mortality in patients younger than 65 remain high. Few studies have focused on this younger cohort and/or their family caregivers as they navigate the complex illness trajectories manifested in heart failure. Instrumental case studies were employed to present exemplars for each of the five identified heart failure trajectories. Culling data from a longitudinal study of female spousal caregivers, each case study represents a wife’s discussion of caring for a husband (

Keywords: illness trajectories; heart failure; spousal caregivers; instrumental case studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773810371119

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