IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/clnure/v19y2010i3p211-229.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Achieving Medical Stability: Wives’ Experiences With Heart Failure

Author

Listed:
  • 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)

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 (

Suggested Citation

  • Judith E. Hupcey & Kimberly Fenstermacher & Lisa Kitko & Janice Penrod, 2010. "Achieving Medical Stability: Wives’ Experiences With Heart Failure," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 19(3), pages 211-229, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:19:y:2010:i:3:p:211-229
    DOI: 10.1177/1054773810371119
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1054773810371119
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/1054773810371119?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:19:y:2010:i:3:p:211-229. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.