Family members' strategies when their elderly relatives consider relocation to a residential home - Adapting, representing and avoiding

► Family members apply the adapting, the representing, or the avoiding strategy. ► In the adapting strategy family members encourage their elderly relative's decision. ► In the representing strategy family members convey their elderly relative's decision. ► In the avoiding strategy family members leave the decision-making process. ► In all three strategies family members try to tone down their personal standpoint.