Oral Presentation Australian and New Zealand Society for Geriatric Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023

Heart Failure: Where successful disease management may feel like geriatrician failure. (#84)

Scott McKenzie 1
  1. The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside (Brisbane), QLD, Australia

Heart Failure is a disease of ageing and is rising in prevalence throughout the developed world. It is the single most common unplanned admission diagnosis in most of the developed world. In the last 8 years there’s been a massive influx of new therapies for the management of heart failure. What are they? When and where do they fit in? Is quality of life being sacrificed in the pursuit of quantity of life?