Heart Failure in the Young: The Patient Perspective and Lived-Experience

Heart failure (HF) is an often-debilitating syndrome that carries a lifelong burden of increased morbidity and mortality. While most affected individuals are elderly with ischemic heart disease, there are subsets of younger individuals who will develop HF. In this group, non-ischemic causes of cardiomyopathy are more common, optimal therapies are less clear, and the personal and societal impact is often greater. The lived-experience of younger...