Renewing Everyday Hope: The Hope Experience of Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore the experience of hope for family members caring for a person with dementia. Seventeen family members caring for persons with dementia were interviewed. The participants described their hope as the possibility of a positive future within their daily lives and in the social context of grief and loss, stress, fatigue, and constantly dealing with challenging behaviours of the person with …