Key result
Hope is necessary for the survival and overall wellbeing of elderly adults living with chronic heart failure.
Hope is a necessary construct for the survival and wellbeing of elderly patients with chronic heart failure.
Hope may inform supportive care in elderly chronic HF; leaves open interventional trials to test survival effects.
This topic review employed Walker and Avant’s method of concept analysis to explore the construct of hope in elderly adults with chronic heart failure. The articles analyzed revealed that hope, as the belief of the occurrence of a positive result without any guarantee that it will be produced, is necessary for the survival and wellbeing of the elderly adults enduring this disease.
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Caboral et al. (2012) studied this question. Hope is necessary for the survival and overall wellbeing of elderly adults living with chronic heart failure.
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