Defining attributes
Future orientation. Heart failure is a disease that affects older adults. Future orientation varies across the age continuum and can be time specific or non-time specific.9 The future in older adults is the anticipation of a future in each day lived.37 Older adults are more concerned about their past rather than their future.3 They look at their past successes as a way to nurture their hope. These individuals do not necessarily wish to return to their original functional state but rather hope that their condition will not worsen.32