Supportive care is integral to comprehensive heart failure care. It addresses communication with the patient and family, decision-making and education, symptom management, quality of life, and psychological, spiritual and social aspects of care. The fifth book in the Supportive Care series, Supportive Care in Heart Failure provides an evidence-based overview of heart failure aetiology, management, and supportive care of patients throughout the course of heartfailure. Chapters cover heart failure epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment, communication with patients and carers, management of common problems and symptoms in heart failure patients,prognostication, end of life care, and bereavement.