Understand Your Diagnosis.
A heart failure diagnosis comes with questions. The HeartLife Academy gives patients and caregivers trusted education to better understand heart failure, explore treatment options, and feel more confident navigating life after diagnosis.
Proud Member & Partner Of
A charity built by heart
patients, for heart patients.
HeartLife exists because we know a heart failure diagnosis affects more than your heart. It changes your everyday life. We're here to help patients and caregivers feel informed, supported and connected.
Educate & empower
Helping patients better understand heart failure through trusted education, practical tools, webinars, and real-world guidance.
Support & guide
Find communities, connect with peers, and access resources that make living with heart failure feel a little less overwhelming.
Collaborate & advocate
We bring together patients, clinicians, researchers, and policymakers to improve heart failure care across Canada.
Knowledge is
the best medicine.
The HeartLife Academy turns the overwhelm of a diagnosis into clear, confident next steps. Bite-sized lessons - created with cardiologists and people who've lived it - help you understand your condition, your treatment, and how to live well.
Self-paced, plain language
Short lessons you can take on your own time, with no jargon and no medical degree required.
Built with patients & clinicians
Every module is reviewed by cardiologists and lived-experience experts you can trust.
Free for everyone, always
No fees, no paywalls. Your enrollment is funded entirely by donations.
From Heart Failure to New Beginnings
September 29, 2022
Meet Sunny
Diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy at just 18 due to a genetic mutation, Sunny's life was suddenly sidelined by severe heart failure. Read how an artificial heart pump (LVAD) and a life-saving heart transplant gave him a miraculous second chance to
Learn MoreOur Support Group
The HeartLife Foundation is a patient-driven charity whose mission is to transform the quality of life for people living with heart disease by engaging, educating, and empowering a global community to create lasting solutions and build healthier lives. Join our Help for Hearts closed Facebook group to get support and share ideas.
HeartLife Women
The HeartLife Foundation is proud to support the Canadian Women with Medical Heart Issues Facebook group. HeartLife joins the mission of this group, lead by our HeartLife Champion Jackie, to inspire and support women living with heart disease to Live Bravely & Love Boldly every day. We are stronger together.