Family carers’ experiences of coping with the deaths of adults in home settings: A narrative analysis of carers’ relevant background worries:

Background:Internationally, evidence on the support needs of family carers who look after a terminally ill adult in home settings is incomplete.Aim:To illustrate the relevance of ‘relevant background worries’ in family carers’ accounts of caring at home for a dying adult.Design:A qualitative cross-sectional observational study was conducted in England, United Kingdom, in 2011–2013 on the experiences of adult family carers (n = 59) of older dying adults (aged 50+ years) with malignant and/or non-malignant conditions. Interviews occurred post-bereavement. This article reports on a subset of participants’ interview transcripts (n = 30) where narrative analysis was undertaken.Setting/participants:Carers were interviewed in their home setting, having been purposively recruited via general practitioner practices in two study sites in England. The subset of participants (n = 30) was purposively selected from the parent sample with reference to carers’ age, relationship to the patient, family circumstances and st...