Mod 10 - End Of Life

Question 1

Concept that an individual’s relationship to death includes people, places, times, objects and symbols

Answer 1

Kastenbaum’s Death System

Question 2

T/F most societies do NOT see death as an end of existence

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Subconcept of death where all living functions cease

Answer 3

Non-functionality

Question 4

Subconcept of death that once dead, cannot be brought back to life

Answer 4

Finality

Question 5

Subconcept of death that all living things die

Answer 5

Universality

Question 6

Subconcept of death that death only applies to living things

Answer 6

Applicability

Question 7

Subconcept of death that the breakdown of bodily function has internal or external causes

Answer 7

Causation

Question 8

200 years ago, how many children died before the age of 10?

Answer 8

1 in 2

Question 9

200 years ago, how many parents typically died before the child grew up?

Answer 9

One

Question 10

Where do 80% of US deaths occur?

Answer 10

Hospital or institution

Question 11

T/F death is a process and doesn’t happen at one single point

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Neurological death when all electrical activity of the brain cease for a period of time

Answer 12

Brain death

Question 13

Irreversible cessation of activity in the brain and brain stem

Answer 13

Brain death

Question 14

What are the 3 phases of death?

Answer 14

Agonal
Clinical
Mortality

Question 15

Phase of death, characterized by rattled, breathing and gasping

Answer 15

Agonal phase

Question 16

Phase of death, in which heartbeat circulation, breathing and brain function stop but resuscitation is still possible

Answer 16

Clinical death

Question 17

Phase of death that is permanent and resuscitation is not possible

Answer 17

Mortality

Question 18

The act of painlessly ending the lives of individual suffering

Answer 18

Euthanasia

Question 19

Type of euthanasia where treatment is withheld (eg: remove life support)

Answer 19

Passive

Question 20

Type of euthanasia, when death is deliberately induced (eg: give high dose of morphine)

Answer 20

Active

Question 21

A process that requires the patient to self administer lethal medication

Answer 21

Assisted suicide

Question 22

The process in which patients think about, and communicate their preferences about end of life care

Answer 22

Advanced care planning

Question 23

A legal document that reflects the patient’s advance care planning

Answer 23

Living Will

Question 24

A document, such as a Living Will that indicates whether or not life-sustaining procedures should be used

Answer 24

Advance directive

Question 25

A more specific document that translates treatment preferences into medical orders

Answer 25

Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST)

Question 26

Program committed to making end of life free from pain when death is imminent

Answer 26

Hospice

Question 27

Care plan to reduce pain and suffering; may happen in conjunction with treatment for illness

Answer 27

Palliative care

Question 28

Leading cause of infant death

Answer 28

SIDS

Question 29

Most common cause of death in childhood

Answer 29

Accident or illness

Question 30

Most common cause of death and adolescents and young adults

Answer 30

Motor vehicle accidents, suicide and homicide

Question 31

Most common cause of death for middle age and older

Answer 31

Cancer and cardiovascular disease

Question 32

How many Americans die in hospitals?

Answer 32

50%

Question 33

How many Americans died in nursing homes

Answer 33

20%

Question 34

At what age can children understand that death is irreversible

Answer 34

4-5

Question 35

Around what age do many children develop a realistic, an accurate perception of death

Answer 35

6

Question 36

What is the best strategy and discussing death with children?

Answer 36

Honesty

Question 37

What age group fears death more than others 

Answer 37

Middle-aged adults

Question 38

Who has a greater fear regarding death across the lifespan

Answer 38

Women

Question 39

T/F: personality will impact relationship with death

Answer 39

True

Question 40

What are the Kubler Ross stages of dying?

Answer 40

Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance (DABDA)

Question 41

T/F psychologist, believe it is best for dying individuals to know they are dying

Answer 41

True

Question 42

As a healthcare provider, what are four things that can help a dying patient

Answer 42

Truthfulness Relax Realistic hope Touch

Question 43

The emotional numbness disbelief, anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness of losing someone loved

Answer 43

Grief

Question 44

Are cognitive factors involved in the severity of grief

Answer 44

Yes

Question 45

Grief that involves enduring despair, and remains unresolved over an extended period of time

Answer 45

Prolonged grief disorder

Question 46

Grief involving a deceased person who cannot be openly mourned

Answer 46

Disenfranchised grief

Question 47

A model of coping with bereavement that emphasizes oscillation between two main dimensions

Answer 47

Dual process

Question 48

Coping that focuses on the deceased individual; the positive and negative appraisal of the loss

Answer 48

Loss-oriented

Question 49

Model of coping that focuses on change of identity (wife to widow) and need to develop new skills (paying bills)

Answer 49

Restoration oriented

Question 50

Women are _______ times more likely to be widowed than men

Answer 50

Three

Question 51

What is the risk of mortality after the death of a partner?

Answer 51

48% higher

Question 52

If death of a partner is sudden, mortality increases for whom

Answer 52

Men

Question 53

Grief, early death, financial loss, loneliness, physical and psychological disorders, increased, spirituality are effects of what?

Answer 53

Losing a partner

Question 54

Seeking a reason for death and assigning blame

Answer 54

Sense making

Question 55

Focusing on doing good after a person’s death (start a charity)

Answer 55

Benefit finding

Question 56

Reminiscing after a persons death

Answer 56

Continue bonds

Question 57

Percentage of people in the US, who elect to be cremated

Answer 57

50%