Dying in the U.S.A.
In the U.S., 87% of patients have stated that they want to die in this location.
What is at home?
This document provides information on a patient's healthcare representative/proxy and medical preferences.
What are advanced directives?
A practice in which a physician provides a
competent adult with a terminal illness with a
prescription for a lethal dose of a drug at the request of the patient.
What is Medical Aid in Dying?
At the time of the plague and plague doctors, this symbol of death emerged.
What is the grim reaper?
This type of care seeks to improve the quality of life for children with serious illness and their families through an interdisciplinary approach.
What is pediatric palliative care?
This replaced infectious diseases as the main cause of death in the early 20th century.
What is chronic diseases.
Equivalent to a person who supports a mother during childbirth, this person supports people and families at the end of life.
What is an End of Life Doula?
In places around the world (except for the U.S.), family members can be involved in the process of _________. For example, in Altima Spain, families can watch behind a a large glass window and in Japan, families can comb through bones to find ones to keep.
What is cremation?
Hello, Go Wish, and the Death Deck are examples.
What are card games that engage people in conversations about death?
A vulnerable population where a language line may be needed.
What are non-English speaker?
Defined as any disease or event that is unlikely to be curable and is life-limiting. And approximately 90 million people in the U.S. are living with it.
What is serious illness?
These are autonomy (the patient has a right to choose or refuse), beneficence (healthcare professionals must act in the best interests of the patient), non-maleficence (do no harm), justice (fairness and equity in distribution of healthcare resources)
What are the values of healthcare ethics?
A period of grief and mourning that occurs after a loss
What is bereavement?
Nora McInerny's TED talk discusses not moving on from grief but moving ________.
What is forward?
This population refrains from medical care due to a lack of trust in the health system, historically.
What is the Black or African-American population?
With origins from Europe, the first one of these started in 1971 in Connecticut.
What is a hospice program?
Interventions include trying not to give advice, being present, and not changing the topic even if you are uncomfortable.
What are effective methods of communication?
Where bodies are laid out in a forest to decompose for forensic study and law enforcement training.
What is a "body farm"?
Spirit Farer and a Mortician's Tale are some examples.
What is video games about death?
Legal and environmental restrictions are two of the biggest barriers for this vulnerable population.
What are people that are incarcerated?
____ focuses on quality of life, symptom control, and advance care planning. _______ focuses on all of the above, but is for patients that have a prognosis of 6 months or less.
What is palliative care and hospice care.
Defined as the overall enjoyment, comfort, and health that individuals experience in their lives
What is quality of life?
In this ceremony, people in Madagascar exhume bodies 5-7 years after burial to remember, celebrate joyfully, and show care to the dead.
What is Turning of the Bones?
The name of the retirement community Chris Hemsworth stayed where he experienced the effects of aging.
What is Sunset Pines?
Those in this population are 4x less likely to have children creating barriers to advance care planning.
What is the LGBTQ+ population?