H.D - Chapter 10 Flashcards

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Stages of dying
(death is expected)

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  1. Weeks before
    loss of appetite
    more sleep
    weakness
    restlessness
    disorientation
    bladder problems
  2. Days before
    less consciousness
    pause in breathing
    low blood pressure
    murmuring to people others can’t see
  3. Days to hours before
    Hard to swallow
    shallow breaths
    weak or absent pulse
    noisy breathing
    pale, blue or cold skin
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Reaction to own’s death throughout life

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  1. Infancy
    React to separation of loved one
  2. Early childhood
    Believe death is temporary
    blame themselves
  3. Middle childhood
    often guilty
  4. Late Childhood
    understand everyone will die
    fear of parents dying
  5. Adolescence
    Feel immune to death
  6. Early Adulthood
    Often don’t worry
  7. Middle Adult hood
    More fear of death
    often caring for others
  8. Late Adulthood
    Lower fear
    more used to death
    fear of how they’ll die
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How to teach children about death

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Important to use clear phrases
Understanding death, less anxiety

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How do adults understand death of loved ones

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  • own death:
    more anxiety during earlier adulthood
    harder for loss of child
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Grief

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The normal process of reacting to loss
social or physical loss

-Complicated
similar but not same as depression disorder

-disenfranchised grief
-anticipatory grief

Five Stages:
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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Bereavement

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Period after a loss which grief and mourning occur

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Mourning

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Process by which people adapt to a loss

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Traditional hospital

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keep patient alive
don’t focus on pain

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Curative Care

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Designed to overcome and cure diseases and illness
EX: Chemotherapy

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Palliative Care

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Focuses on providing comfort and relief from physical and emotional pain to patients throughout their illness, even while being treated

-not just for terminally ill patients

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Hospice Care

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Involves a team of professionals and volunteers who provide terminally ill patients with medical, psychological, and spiritual support, along w support for families

-home, nursing home, hospital
-Sometimes poor care provided

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Active Euthanasia

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Intentionally causing death, usually through a lethal dose of medication

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Passive Euthanasia

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Life-sustaining support is withdrawn

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Physician-Assisted Dying

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A physician prescribes the means by which a person can die

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