“…There is little focus on how to help and support the family unit to deal with the situation caused by the illness. Patients live with their illness within their family (Kaakinen & Hanson, 2015), and decisions on applying for and making use of measures provided by the health care service are often made jointly by the family as a whole (Kaakinen & Hanson, 2015;Parahoo, 2008 (Drabe, Wittmann, Zwahlen, Büchi, & Jenewein, 2013;Gjertsen, 2009;McKechnie, MacLeod, & Keeling, 2007). The quality of family relationships has been found to be significant in how well families manage to adapt to situations involving nursing and death in the home (Collier et al, 2015;Gott, Seymour, Bellamy, Clark, & Ahmedzai, 2004;Milligan et al, 2016).…”