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What does it mean to live at home at the end of life? What does it mean to support someone through this? In this chapter we present a dialogue and narratives from life and research experience about this challenging and amazing part of community-based care. It is clear that most people want to die at home (PCA, 2010), not in intensive care, or a hospital ward or even a hospice. And the people they want around them are people they know, people they trust, and people they can laugh and cry with.
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Horsfall, D., Higgs, J. (2017). Palliative Care. In: Tasker, D., Higgs, J., Loftus, S. (eds) Community-Based Healthcare. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-995-9_15
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