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Received: 11 August 2017

Accepted: 15 January 2019

First Online: 7 February 2019

Authors’ information

: Sofia Tavermark, is an occupational therapist at Örebro Municipality, Healthcare and Social Services, Örebro, Sweden and has experience working in general palliative care in municipal care. Liselotte Hermansson is an occupational therapist, a professor at Örebro University and a research supervisor at the University Health Care Research Center, Region Örebro County, Örebro, Sweden. She has extensive experience in clinical occupational therapy and in education and research. Karin Blomberg is a registered nurse and a professor at the School of Health Sciences, Örebro University. She has extensive palliative care experience, as a nurse, an educator of healthcare professionals in palliative care, a palliative care researcher.

: All participants received oral and written information about the study and all provided written consent. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and gained approval from an ethics review board in Uppsala, Sweden (reg.no: 2014/312).

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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