Discussion
heart failure symptoms
HEART FAILURE
The present study examined the effectiveness of HBPC in the quality of life of older adults with heart failure. The findings showed no significant difference in the pre-intervention QOL scores between the intervention and control groups. The home-based palliative care program significantly improved the quality of life and all its components for the patients in the intervention group immediately after the intervention compared to the pre-intervention phase. However, there was significant difference in the QOL scores for the patients in the control group but these changes were less than the intervention group. These findings were in line with the results reported by Hosseini et al. [In line with the findings reported by Wong et al. [The results revealed that the group receiving palliative care at home and the control group differed in terms of the quality of life one month after the intervention, as reported by Bahadur et al. [In addition, Greener et al. discovered that palliative care can enhance patients' quality of life and lessen their heart failure symptoms [