The Dying Experience at Home and the Hospice Care Organization: A Cast of Nurses, Family Members, and the Patient

This study aims to understand how individuals cope with a family member entering hospice care, how role dynamics and the formation of meaning reveal insights about the process of death, and how dying relates to the hospice organization, hospice administrators, managers, and supervisors, the patient, and surviving family members. The axioms of symbolic interactionism provide both a useful framework and the theoretical insight for healthcare administrators and researchers to better understand the relationship between the organization, patient outcomes, and the death and dying experience of families while moving management theory towards a patient-centered perspective.