Every Donation
Changes a Life.
No one should have to face heart failure alone. Your generosity helps HeartLife provide free education, patient support, advocacy and life-changing resources for people living with heart failure across Canada.
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A heart failure diagnosis
can be overwhelming.
Your support helps HeartLife provide the education, resources, and community that patients and caregivers need to move forward with confidence.
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.
Heart failure is one of
Canada's most urgent and
overlooked health crises.
People in Canada are living with heart failure today.
Are newly diagnosed across the country each year.
Higher death rates among adults 40-49 with heart failure vs. those without.
Source: HeartLife Foundation • Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
Everything we build is
connected to the heart.
Whether you're newly diagnosed or years into your journey, HeartLife surrounds you with education, support, advocacy, and a community that understands.
Community & support
Connect with people who understand your journey through peer support, discussion groups, and shared lived experience.
Education & Academy
Through the HeartLife Academy, webinars, and trusted resources, we help patients and caregivers navigate life with heart failure.
Research & advocacy
Patient-led research and national advocacy, from the Patient Charter to Bill S-204. Helping ensure patient voices influence research, policy, and the future of heart failure care.
Resources & toolkit
A Health Passport, journey maps, and practical toolkits to help you track your health and navigate the system with confidence.
HeartLife Women
Personalized, evidence-based resources and a supportive community ensuring Women's heart health is finally seen, heard, and cared for.
Health tracking
Tools to log symptoms, medications and how you feel, so you and your care team can spot what matters, sooner.
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 MoreEvery dollar helps keep
this community alive.
HeartLife is patient-driven and donation-powered. Because membership is always free, it's gifts from people like you that fund the programs, research, and advocacy that change and save lives.
Provides resources for new patients.
Supports peer connections and community programs.
Funds educational content and patient toolkits.
Powers patient-led research & advocacy.
100% GOES TO THE MISSION • CHARITABLE TAX RECEIPTS ISSUED
Our 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.