Without adequate nursing support for families, dying at home threatens the values of a good death.

Commentary on: Hoare S, Kelly MP, Barclay S. Home care and end-of-life hospital admissions: a retrospective interview study in English primary and secondary care. Br J Gen Pract 2019;69(685):E561–9. The idea of home as a preferred location to achieve a ‘good death’ has become popular within end-of-life care discourse. So popular that hospital death is a measure of failed palliative care.1 Less attention is paid—with notable exceptions2—to critically examining the challenges of home care at end of life. The focus of this study3 was on understanding why some patients receiving end-of-life care at home …