It's about Life ,
not failure.
HeartLife is Canada's patient-led heart failure community. We connect patients, caregivers, and families with education, support, and people who understand.
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.
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.
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.
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Apprendre encore plusEvery 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
Notre groupe de soutien
La Fondation HeartLife est un organisme de bienfaisance axé sur les patients dont la mission est de transformer la qualité de vie des personnes vivant avec une maladie cardiaque en engageant, en éduquant et en donnant à une communauté mondiale les moyens de créer des solutions durables et de bâtir une vie plus saine. Rejoignez notre groupe Facebook fermé Help for Hearts pour obtenir du soutien et partager des idées.
HeartLife Femmes
La Fondation HeartLife est fière de soutenir le groupe Facebook des Canadiennes atteintes de problèmes cardiaques. HeartLife rejoint la mission de ce groupe, dirigé par notre championne HeartLife Jackie, pour inspirer et soutenir les femmes vivant avec une maladie cardiaque à vivre avec courage et aimer avec audace chaque jour. Nous sommes plus forts ensemble.