TY - JOUR T1 - Without adequate nursing support for families, dying at home threatens the values of a good death JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 45 LP - 45 DO - 10.1136/ebnurs-2019-103214 VL - 24 IS - 2 AU - David Kenneth Wright AU - Christine J. McPherson Y1 - 2021/04/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/24/2/45.abstract N2 - 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.Families providing end-of-life care in the home urgently require well-resourced community nursing services.Future research should explore the perspectives of people who choose, for whatever reason, not to take on formal and intimate caregiving roles for their dying family members.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 … ER -