Table 1.

Changes in the Characteristics of Patients with Chronic Heart Failure/Contents of Medical Services.

	Heart failure previously treated	Geriatric heart failure
Age	Young persons	Elderly persons
Life environment	Employed persons/family	Persons living alone/elderly husbands and wives
Left ventricular function	Decrease in the ejection fraction	Normal ejection fraction
Complication	Absent	Concomitant presence of various diseases/frailty
Cause of readmission	Reduction of exercise tolerance	Insufficient control/other diseases
Category of disease	Chronic disease	Fatal disease
Reason for death	Ejection fraction reduction/congestion/sudden death	Other diseases/systemic weakness
Goal of treatment	Rehabilitation/lifetime prolongation	Health expectancy prolongation/quality of life improvement
Initiative in treatment	Medical side	Patient side
Primary persons responsible for treatment	Physicians/nurses	Multi-occupational/medical team
Place of treatment	Admission	Outpatient clinic/home