Cardiac Rehabilitation to Optimize Medication Regimens in Heart Failure.

Overview

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an inherently patient-centered program that provides holistic care to adults with cardiovascular conditions to promote lifelong health and fitness, facilitate self-care and self-efficacy, and improve clinical outcomes. CR offers an excellent platform for patient-centered optimization of medication regimens for older adults with heart failure through its potential to address several aspects of care that have historically served as major challenges to clinicians-diuretic management, the use of guideline-directed medical therapy, review and reconciliation of noncardiovascular medications, and optimization of medication adherence. In this review, these challenges are described and strategies offered for leveraging CR toward addressing them.