Holistic Home Hospice: Caring for a Dying Father—A Family Hermeneutic Exemplar

This exemplar focuses on the patient and the family. The challenges of caring for a dying parent are numerous, but having the resourcefulness of home hospice may assist in such a struggle. The home hospice experience involves providing care while attending to the sensitivity needs of culture, religion, and emotions. Many share a lack of knowledge regarding available in-home services such as home hospice, which allows one the independent opportunity to die with dignity in the comfort of one’s own environment with a sense of peace, familiarity, and familial love. While the family cared for their dying father, little did they know that actual caring would require a holistic approach and that an out-of-home agency was available to guide them through what would become an unfortunate experience, yet a successful one.