MyHeart MyLife: Supporting Patients to Live Well with Coronary Heart Disease

MyHeart MyLife: Supporting Patients to Live Well with Coronary Heart Disease

20 Oct 2025

Receiving a CHD diagnosis can be overwhelming. Patients often face:

  • New medications to manage

  • Lifestyle changes to adopt

  • Multiple medical appointments

  • Emotional challenges, including the common “cardiac blues” affecting up to 80% of patients post-event

The program provides:

  • Education and information: Online articles, videos, and animations covering medicines, diet, safe exercise, mental wellbeing, and returning to everyday life

  • Tailored support: Content personalised based on diagnosis timing and rural or remote location

  • Practical guidance: Reinforces cardiac rehabilitation programs and encourages medicine adherence and healthy habits

  • Emotional and social support: Peer connection through the MyHeart MyLife Facebook community with over 5,000 members

How it works:
Over 12 weeks, patients and carers receive:

  • Easy-to-read resources and expert advice

  • Supportive text messages and emails with practical tips

  • Access to a peer community for psychosocial support

Benefits of participation:

  • Improved understanding and self-management of CHD

  • Encouragement to stick to medications and lifestyle changes

  • Emotional reassurance and connection with others facing similar challenges

Patient perspective:
"MyHeart MyLife was a great support tool that answered a lot of questions and reduced the fear and anxiety of not knowing the best path forward. It was comforting to know that I was not alone in this journey."

Recommendation for clinicians:
The program complements clinical care and cardiac rehab, helping patients reinforce learning and manage their condition between appointments. Clinicians are encouraged to recommend MyHeart MyLife to patients with CHD.

Learn more and register: MyHeart MyLife Website

Source: Heart Foundation, 2025.

 
 
 
 
 

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