This phd research project will explore personal assistance for people with ALS. The overall aim is to explore persons with ALSs experiences and perspectives on their personal assistance aswell as what type of knowledge, education and support is required for personal assistants in order to provide care and support to the person with ALS. The project will also explore the experiences and perspectives from close others and personal assistans. The projects duration is between 2025-2030 and it is funded by the ALS trust (https://alsfonden.se/). The project will use both qulitative and quantitative methods through interviews and surveys. As the datacollection concerns sensitive personal information about health and illness it is required to use Whisper as a transcription software. The main supervisor of the doctoral student is Birgitta Jakobsson Larsson, med. dr at the department of IFV, medecine of health and pharmacy where the doctoral student also is employed.