Hope as moral accompaniment: a framework for palliative care practice
Claudia Navarini
Growing evidence underscores the importance of hope in shaping patients’ experiences. In the context of illness, hope regulates emotions, supports resilience, helps patients face uncertainty, and sustains the belief that life remains meaningful and worth living, even in adversity. While its relevance is well documented, very few approaches actively cultivate hope for its possible indirect therapeutic impact at a psycho-physical level. Among them, some positive psychology contributions seems to b