'I am closer to this place'-Space, place and notions of home in lived experiences of hospice day care

► Using concepts from existential geography we consider hospice as a homelike place. ► Through qualitative methods we explore patients' lived experiences of hospice day care. ► Hospice can be a therapeutic landscape which includes non-therapeutic places. ► As a place hospice helps to mediate transitions between the unhomelike and homelike. ► We propose three existential modes that illustrate becoming 'at-home' in hospice.