Person -centered care is a commonly known concept, despite that the understanding of the phenomenon differs. Nurses seems to talk past each other when the subject of person-centered care is discussed. A common language and understanding for each other’s understanding of what person-centered care in ordinary living includes, seems to be missing.Purpose: The purpose is to give a description of the nurse´s understanding about person-centered care in ordinary living within community healthcare.Method: Phenomenography has been used in this Master Thesis as a method. Phenomenography is an empirical qualitative inductive method. Interviews have been conducted with nurses working within the community health-care systems. Semi-structured open interview questions are designed and used. The analysis of data was carried out according to Sjöström and Dahlgren (2002) and Åkerlind (2012) descriptions. Results: The results are reported in a sample space which consist of four description categories:  see the whole person, support the person to an active roll in their own care,  to use each others skills in the care team and create personal and close relations. These descriptive categories depict the nurse´s perception of person -centered care in ordinary living.Keywords: care, phenomenography, homecare, the person in center