| INITIAL INTERVIEW GUIDE |
Describe what happened the day before and after the stroke. |
| How were the early days like: the moment of diagnosis and the first weeks at home? |
| Being a caregiver may have involved doing activities which you were not use to do before, such as feeding or bathing your loved one. How did you experience these situations and how do you deal with them now? How about your loved one? |
| How do you feel in this dependency situation? How did you adapt to this caregiving situation? How do you deal with your role as a caregiver? And how about your loved one? |
| What aid resources have you had? Where you provided with any aid resources? Which one? What aid resources would you like to have? |
| How has your life changed since you are the family caregiver? What do you expect from the future? |
| ADVANCED INTERVIEW GUIDE |
What priority does care for your loved one have in your life? |
| How do you see your life of caring for your loved one? |
| How would you describe the life you used to have and the life you have now? |
| How do you approach the future? |
| What do you expect from life? |
| What was your experience during the first months of caring your loved one? |
| How did you adapt to caring your loved one? How did you adquired caring skills? How did you adjust to the environment and acquire caregiving resources? |
| What type of assistance did you receive to be trained as a caregiver? |
| As of today, to what degree do you see yourself capable of caring for your partner? |
| How do you see delegating care to a professional caregiver? |
| What type of aid do you believe might be appropriate for your care demand needs? |
| What do you think of care assistance? |
| What do you think of your partner as opposed to what he/she was before the stroke? What differences can you appreciate in your partner before and after the stroke? |
| How do you think you have changed? Do you see yourself differently? How? Do you recognise yourself? What do you think of the process of reconnecting with whom you were before? |
| How has surviving the stroke affected your life positively or negatively (for you and your partner)? |
| What have you loose after the stroke? |
| What positive things you want to point out after the stroke? |
