Ch. 13 & 15 Vocab

Question 1

Prejudice against aging and aged persons.

Answer 1

Ageism

Question 2

Continual process of biologic, cognitive, and psychosocial change.

Answer 2

Aging

Question 3

People over 100 years old.

Answer 3

Centenarians

Question 4

A neurologic condition characterized by the following cognitive defects: impaired memory, disturbed intellectual function, and inability to problem solve.

Answer 4

Dementia

Question 5

Positive aspect of last psychosocial stage of life in which one reflects on one’s achievements and feels self-satisfaction.

Answer 5

Ego integrity

Question 6

Any type of abuse of the elderly.

Answer 6

Elder abuse

Question 7

A specialist in the study of aging people.

Answer 7

Gerontologist

Question 8

The number of years of a person’s life.

Answer 8

Life span

Question 9

Length of life.

Answer 9

Longevity

Question 10

Having good judgment based on accumulated knowledge.

Answer 10

Wisdom

Question 11

Making available to patients the means to end their lives with knowledge that suicide is their intent.

Answer 11

Assisted suicide

Question 12

The state of having suffered a loss by death.

Answer 12

Bereavement

Question 13

The permanent stopping of integrated functioning of the person as a whole; cessation of brain functioning.

Answer 13

Brain death

Question 14

Identifying symptoms that cause the patient distress and adequately treating those symptoms.

Answer 14

Comfort care

Question 15

A person chosen by the patient to carry out the patient’s wishes as expressed in an advance directive.

Answer 15

Health care proxy

Question 16

A program that provides a continuum of home and inpatient care for terminally ill patients and their families.

Answer 16

Hospice

Question 17

After death.

Answer 17

Postmortem

Question 18

The stiffness that occurs in dead bodies as chemical changes take place.

Answer 18

Rigor mortis

Question 19

A dress or garment for the dead; winding sheet.

Answer 19

Shroud

Question 20

The medicolegal study of the dying process and death.

Answer 20

Thanatology