hope as a trait refers to a person basic outlook and approach to life and is less likely to fluctuate in response to life situations. Boland and Sims found hope to be a component of caregiving as they attempted to capture the caregiver experiences across the illness trajectory in their qualitative study. They found that caregiver burden needed to be measured in the context of meaning placed on being home by the caregiver. The caregivers in this study described home as being healing and a source of hope where the patients could ipprove, if not physically, at least mentally