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The purpose of this study is to, based on qualitative interviews, understand the home care staff's experiences of insufficiency and also which strategies they are using to deal with these experiences. The questions of this study are: In which situations are home care staff experiencing insufficiency? What copingstrategies do home care staff set out to deal with these experiences? Method: Interviews has been used as a method to gather empirical data. Theory: Theories of coping-strategies has been used as theory in the analyses of the empirical material. Results: The result of this study concludes that experiences of insufficiency mainly promotes in situations of lack of time for various reasons. The main strategies home care staff is using are planning, adapting, accepting, compensation, get themselves together, control and manage their emotions and understanding. Other situations that promote feelings of insufficiency are lack of competence and when the eldery person doesn't want to receive a planned effort. Other strategies they use are social support and changing the circumstances