How does the author depict the concept of “hope” and its part in people’s lives (such as nursing home residents and in those diagnosed with cancer)? Cite evidence in your answer.

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Learning to Hope

Carol Farran, an eldercare expert from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, sought to understand

why some nursing home residents thrived despite adversity and isolation while others just withered away.

The difference between the two groups, she found, was hope—not the blind or rigid optimism that usually

passes for hope, but an open sense of possibility, acceptance of risk, and a willingness to work things out.

Hopeful people face reality in a clear-eyed fashion, doing the best they can. One woman too sick to go

outdoors, for instance, maintained an upbeat attitude by remembering the emotional riches of her past.

"The hopeful person looked at reality and then arrived at solutions. If a hoped-for outcome became

impossible, the hopeful person would find something else to hope for," Farran found.

The role of hope in cancer has also come under scrutiny. Psychologists at the Royal Marsden Hospital in

London and Sutton studied women with early-stage breast cancer and found that risk of recurrence or

death increased significantly among those who lacked hope. There was nothing mysterious or mystical

about it: Hopeful patients managed their illness themselves instead of letting outsiders pull the strings.

They often chose the most aggressive treatments. And envisioning the light at the end of the tunnel helped

provide the strength they needed to get through each difficult day.

Yet hope was not a given for them; it was an attitude they wrested from despair. Despite being an expert

on hope, Farran could not muster any when she herself was diagnosed with breast cancer. She met the

news with anger,grief, and fear of death.Panicpropelled her through treatment, in a total daze. Only when

she went in for breast reconstruction was a wisenurse able to penetrate her panic: "A year from now you'll

be where you want to be, but there is no way to get there except by going through this experience, now.