Abstract. Stroke is a disease that can cause cognitive impairment or disability. Role and support of
family as the closest person is necessary for the post-stroke recovery process. This systematic review aims to
identify the effectiveness of the family's role in caring patient with post-stroke at home. There are four steps to
define the topic (1) to identify appropriate keywords (post-stroke, community, family, and home), (2) to identify
relevant literature based on topic, (3) to identify appropriate inclusion criteria, (4) to analyze the account of
various intervention on literature. Search strategy resulted in 849 articles from Scopus, Proquest, Science
Direct and SpringerLink with a limit of 2014-2018 and English-language, only 15 journals were eligible for
analysis. There are types of family roles to support patient’s post-stroke at home: Activity daily life (ADL)
assistance and psychosocial support. The role and support of family put effect into the caring patient with stroke
at home, including an increase of ADL, life quality, cognitive function, and self-efficacy