This section links patients and their families or carers to practical information for managing heart conditions.  Below you will find a range of tools and resources including:  calculators to measure health items such as the cost for smoking;  as well as information relevant to certain conditions such as recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, managing heart failure, and living with a cardiac pacemaker or  other devices.  There are also links to relevant websites, videos and downloadable information sheets.

• BMI Calculator
• Cost of Smoking Calculator 
• Target Heart Rate Calculator
• Waist Size Calculator

• My heart, my life:  an overview on how to manage heart health
• My heart, my life app My Heart My life App
• Heart attack action plan
• Heart attack facts: learn the warning signs of a heart attack 
• The Health and website has simple explanations animations about  heart attacks  any many other health topics 

• Activity guidelines for the sternum following open heart surgery
• Exercise following heart surgery: the first 4 weeks
• Chest wall mobility following heart surgery: weeks 4 to 12
• Managing scars after heart surgery 

• Living Well with Heart Failure booklet
• Living with heart failure - A guide for families and carers
• Heart failure matters:   A website with practical information for patients, families and caregivers about heart failure in 10 languages. 
• The Health and website has simple explanations animations about  heart attacks  any many other health topics 

Pregnancy

• Pregnancy and cardiomyopathy

Exercise with heart failure

• Physical activity, exercise and heart failure 
• Physical activity and heart failure for Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders
• Home exercise diary

Diaries

• Weight and symptom diary

• Common  investigations in cardiac disease
• Percutaneous coronary interventions – PCI 
• Implantable devices

• Resuming activities of daily living (driving, work, work,  travel and sexual activity) 
• Sleep  disturbances
• Heart Foundation healthy eating
• Heart Foundation active living
• Baker Institute fact sheets

Organisations for depression, anxiety  and crisis management

• Beyond blue
• Black Dog Institute
• Lifeline

Interactive self-help tools for depression and mood disorders

• Mood Gym
• E-Couch

Peer support

• The Cardiomyopathy Association of Australia supporting people with all forms of cardiomyopathy and their families. 
• Heart Support Australia provides support, information and encouragement for people with a heart condition and their families. 
• Hearts 4 heart provides education, support and advocacy for younger Australians with a cardiac condition and their families.  

Carer and relationship support

• Carers Australia
• Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres
• National Carer Counselling Program
• Relationships Australia and 1300 364 277

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