Chapter 11
What percentage of women have a successful VBAC or TOLAC?
60-80%
What is defined as contributing in a positive way to family community or the world?
Generativity
What are the ages of late adulthood?
65-74 years
What is the facilitation of suicide where teh person knowingly takes lethal drugs provided by a doctor for this purpose?
Assisted suicide
What are grandchildren, property, a culture, an organization, or writings examples of?
Legacies
What is pregnancy in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus resulting in malformation of the fallopian tube or damage caused by PID?
Ectopic pregnancy
What is defined as the period of development after the early adult years but before retirement called?
Middle adulthood
What is the ingestion of multiple medications in 1 day?
Polypharmacy
What is known as providing needed support for patients such as remaining near the family, simply holding a hand, providing strength while facilities the expression of emotions and grief?
Therapeutic presence
What is the emotional response to a loss of anyone or anything an individual is attached to deply?
Grief
What are accidents, drugs, and violence the major causes of for young adults?
What is known as the experience when adults are able to realign themselves with the next stage of life in a healthy way?
Midlife transition
What is the infliction of harm or neglect through action or acts of omission?
Elder abuse
What is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychological and spiritual?
Palliative care
What is grief that occurs before the loss?
Anticipatory grief
Levinson believed that each season had what where transitional periods were separated?
Structure
What is changing the concept of one's own identity to fit reality, rather than what is dreamed?
Identity accommodation
What uses tension from two conflicting approaches to a problem in pursuit of new and innovated outcomes?
What is a document written by a health-care provider during a conversation with the patient that equates to a physician order outlining specific medical treatments that the patient wishes to have immediately based on their diagnosis, prognosis and goals of care?
POLST (physician's order for life-sustaining treatment)
What is grief that may be prolonged and debilitating, complicated by a sense of disbelief regarding the death, anger and bitterness, painful emotions with intense yearning, and intrusive and distressing thoughts of the deceased, all of which remain severe and impairing?
Complicated grief
What is the most common surgery performed on women during the reproductive years?
Hysterectomy
What refers to the time in life in which hormonal changes result in cessation of the reproductive ability in the female and a corresponding decrease in sexual activity in the male?
Climacteric
What is the ability to live in one's own home and community, safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income, or ability level?
Aging in place
What is the fear of death or seeing death as a terrifying state of nothingness without understanding the cause or what happens after death?
Thanatophobia
What loss is the occurrence as one passes through the life cycle such as newborn's loss of security of the womb?
Maturational loss