Table 1. Summary of inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Inclusion criteria	Exclusion criteria
Patients diagnosed with HF NYHA III and at least one hospital admission in the previous six months§, or grade IV	Dementia
Attended at home by primary care professionals	Intellectual disability
Aged > 65 years	Severe psychiatric disorder
	Presence of symptoms that could impede describing the experience

^§ Bjork JB, Alton KK, Georgiopoulou VV, Butler J, Kalogeropoulos AP. Defining Advanced Heart Failure: A Systematic Review of Criteria Used in Clinical Trials. Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2016; 22(7):569–77.

HF: heart failure. NYHA: New York Heart Association.