 Participants will be consecutively recruited and randomly allocated into the arm of study using computer generated random numbers. People who have suffered a stroke and admitted in the wards are identified through wards registers. Informed consent and assent for patients who cannot communicate will be sought. Baseline assessment on function and health related quality of life will be done at least 48 hours post stroke for patients. The caregivers who will most likely look after patients will be identified and after giving consent will be assessed on baseline caregiver burden and health related quality of life at recruitment. Research assistants who are trained will be blinded to the arm to which the patients and their caregivers belong. Another research assistant will allocate the participants into the intervention or control arms of the study and communicate with the caregivers for training appointments and the PI who will do all the training for intra-rater reliability.The caregivers are trained on caring for people who have survived a stroke before they are discharged home. The training will include both theoretical input and practical demonstrations. Handouts will be given for their reference later on. training will occur only once. Both the caregiver and patient are then followed up at three months and twelve months. The functional outcomes, quality of life and physical and social reintegration will be elicited from the patients while caregivers will be asked about caregiver burden and quality of life. 