Healthy Lifestyle
A disease that affects only a particular people or country
What is an Endemic
Transmits attitudes, thoughts, and feelings using spoken or written words
What is verbal communication
The feeling or outward expression in response to a loss
What is grief
A normal ,inevitable, progressive process that produces irreversible changes over an extended time
What is aging
Loss of hearing acuity
What is presbycusis
The average number of years a person is expected to live
What is life expectancy
Shows that you understand a person's feelings and view of the world
What is empathy
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's second stage of loss and grief
What is Anger
A theory based on the idea that highly unstable molecules may result form cellular metabolism or substances found in the atmosphere
What is the free radical theory
Occurs when children move out of their parents home and leave them alone
What is empty-ness syndrome
Goals that promote health and disease prevention services aimed at improving the health of all Americans
What is Healthy People 2020
Stating your perception of another person's message in the effective (feeling) domain
What is Reflecting
State of having sustained a loss
What is bereavement
A theory that suggest that after repeated injury, cells wear out and cease to function
What is the wear and tear theory
Inability to fall asleep and stay asleep
What is insomnia
A poor dietary state that results from the lack of essential nutrients or the failure to use available food
What is Malnutrition
A personality style that is very destructive
What is Aggressive
Respiratory rates may become irregular with periods of apnea at time of death
What is Cheyne-Stokes respirations
Postural changes that is a result of an exaggerated curvature of the spine
What is Kyphosis
A cloudy formation on the lens of the eye
What is a cataracts
The response to a stressful sitation
What is anxiety
A powerful communication tool that elicits positive or negative reactions
What is touch
A form of advanced directives that states the wishes of a person reguarding life sustaining treatment in the case of serious illness
What is a living will
Prejudice against older people that contributes to negative perception of the aging process
What is ageism
The cell of this part of the skin that becomes less elastic resulting in wrinkles and sagging of the skin
What is the dermis