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What are the two top places that people die at?
#1: home
#2: hospitals
DNR?
DNI?
DNH?
Do not Intubate
Do not hospitalize
What is it when someone has anxiety or fear of death/dying
Death anxiety
Which of the gender groups are most likely to die and remarry after their spouses die?
Which of the gender groups are less likely to remarry?
Women
What is a healthcare proxy?
Someone that you decide to make legal medical decisions for you
Which age group tends to not have death anxiety?
Older adults
What is anticipatory grief?
Grief experienced before the experienced death, this helps when the impact of loss occurs
What is anniversay reaction?
Feelings of sadness on the anniversary date of a loss
Whar is the loss called when you get no real closure, there is no cremation or funeral
Ambiguous loss
What is hospice care?
An approach to assist dying people
Palliative care
What is the grief called when you lose someone but that grief is not validated by other
Ex: loss of a pet, or celebrity loss
Disenfranchised grief
What is it when you have active treatment, you fight to survive for example chemo.
Curative care
Physicians must certify that the person is within _ months of death in order to be in hospice care
6
What is the role of a practical death?
Organizng things for when you die. For example affairs or loans or like leaving things to family members
What is the role of a relational death?
Letting go of loved ones
Saying goodbye
Emotional connections with others
Respite care is for the?
And what does a person have to have in order to receive this?
The caregivers. It allows them to have a break. Medicare
Personal
What is active euthanisia
The deliberate ending of someones life, this is all healthcare tho, the doctors end yo life
What is passive euthanasia
Withdrawing potentially life saving interentions that might keep a person from dying. For example removing someone from the ventilator
What is it called when a patient voluntarily takes the drug themselves (given by doctors) , basically killing themsleves
When given the choice between a young person and an older person, who would doctors give the ventilator too?
Young person
What is the widowhood mortality effect?
An elevated risk of death among survivor spouses after being widowed