[Non-medical and non-instrumental therapy in heart failure].

Chronic heart failure is a disease justifying the initiation of a medical treatment, of which the well-established modalities require cooperation between the general practitioner and the cardiologist. However, this chronic disease also requires patient's active participation in their own treatment, especially through the adoption of new health behaviors: self-monitoring of progression signs, following nutritional recommendations, maintaining adequate physical activity and taking a medical treatment, which may be associated with side effects. Therapeutic education programs or cardiac rehabilitation can help patients to develop these new skills.

[Education and multidisciplinary management in chronic heart failure].

Heart failure is a common, serious and expensive disease. It causes repeated hospitalizations, decreases patients' quality of life, and reduces the independence of elderly patients. It constitutes a major public health problem for which a new organization of care appears necessary.