Table 4.

Key findings.

Key Findings • In a resource-poor setting, professional support for family caregivers and patients to manage care at home is lacking. • Family caregivers face enormous practical and emotional challenges, such as managing conflict in care provision, a sudden change in the patient’s condition, or dealing with the refusal of food. Patients and caregivers have difficulty accessing the services they need. • Family caregivers learn how to provide care by trial and error, and this affects the quality of care they provide, as well as the quality of life of the men living with advanced prostate cancer. • The cultural belief in the reciprocity of care motivates families to maintain caring even if they are struggling to cope. • Family caregivers assess and manage pain and medication side effects at home unsupported. • The use of herbal medications in place of or in conjunction with other medicines from the hospital is common, and this could have a detrimental effect on the patients, perhaps than the prostate cancer symptoms.