Background According to the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions should all healthcare professionals within the regions, municipalities and county councils work for an introduction of person-centered care, which will aim to promote good and equitable health care and to enhance patients and users as co-creators in their own care process.

Aim The aim of this study was to describe the district nurses' perception of person-centered care and the conditions required to implement person-centered care in home care.

Method A qualitative study was conducted using eleven face-to face interviews.

Results The analysis showed that the district nurses perceive person-centered care was to have the person at the center when it comes to planning and implementation of health care. To achieve this goal the nurses declared the need for certain conditions. These are reported to be team work, support from the organization and patient involvement in their care.

Conclusion All nurses in the study were positive to a person-centered care approach and basically they were aware of the meaning of the term. The district nurses who had recently undergone specialized training focusing on district nursing had a more scientifically based definition of what person-centered mean In relation to those with older training. The former appeared more likely to work on a basies of a person-centred approach and were more positive to develop such approach in health care.