Loss of appetite, incontinence, hallucinations, etc.
What are some of the stages/symptoms of dying?
Brain fog and forgetfulness, exhaustion, irritability, lessened tolerance, adjustment
What are normal grief reactions?
The professional responsible for providing emotional care and resources to a patient and family.
What is a hospice social worker?
Queen of England who shaped Victorian grieving expectations
Who is Queen Victoria?
The lack of engagement with or denial of death, dying, and grief.
What is Death Avoidance?
Not dying alone, not dying in pain, and dying with dignity.
What is a "good" death?
Grief experienced before the death or event of loss has occurred
What is anticipatory grief?
The act of preparing a body to be viewed.
What is embalming?
The event of mass death that was viewed as deserved by some groups
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic?
The ideology of approaching death with openness, honesty, and education.
What is death positivity?
The woman responsible for the modern hospice movement
Who is Dame Cicely Saunders?
Grief that is not recognized as valid by a society, community, or by individuals in a person’s life
What is disenfranchised grief?
The person responsible for providing guidance to family related to service planning and postmortem tasks
What is a funeral director?
The illness that caused large numbers of death in the 1800's.
What is tuberculosis?
The harmful idea/responses experienced by 13 year old Orli and her family
What is relentless hope, avoidance, or passivity?
The document that allows a person to elect a healthcare agent and express their end of life wishes.
What are Advanced Directives?
The misunderstood framework for grief of dying people.
What are The Five Stages of Grief?
Bath aides, LPNs, massage therapists
What are hospice staff members?
The events in history that led to embalming as common practice.
What are the Civil War and the assassination of President Lincoln?
The process of the body shutting down and an irreversible state of the body no longer being alive
What is the difference between dying and death?
The Medicaid waiver that covers hospice costs for anyone under the age of 21.
What is Katie Beckett?
The outward expression of grief or loss
What is mourning?
A specialized team responsible for assessing for a patient’s ability to donate their organs following death
What is an organ donation team?
A common practice in Victorian England to memorialize deceased loved ones
What is post-mortem photography OR What is Victorian hair art?
The study of the phenomena of death and of the psychological mechanisms for coping with them
What is Thanatology?