Chapter 12 - Psychological Issues In Advancing & Terminal Illness Flashcards
Curative care
Care designed to cure a patient’s underlying disease
Death education
Programs designed to inform people realistically about death and dying the purpose of which is to reduce the terror connected with and avoidance of the topic
Euthanasia
Ending the life of a person who has a painful terminal illness for the purpose of terminating the individual suffering
Grief
A response to bereavement involving a feeling of hollowness, and sometimes marked by preoccupation with a dead person, expressions of hostility towards others and guilt over the death
Home care
Karen for dying patients in the home the choice of care for the majority of terminal patience those sometimes problematic for family members
Hospice
An institution for dying patients that encourages personalized warm, palliative care
Hospice care
An alternative to hospital and home care designed to provide warm, personal comfort for terminally ill patients may be residential or home-based
Infant mortality rate
The number of infant deaths per thousand infants
Living will
A well, prepared by person requesting that extraordinary life sustaining procedures not be used in the event of the persons ability to make this decision is lost
Palliative care
Care designed to make the patient comfortable, but not to care or improve the patient’s underlying disease often part of terminal care
Physician assisted death
Physician administers a lethal dose of a medication to a person with the intent to cause death. Illegal in the USA
Premature death
Death that occurs before the projected Age of population
Stages of dying
A theory developed by Elizabeth Kubler Ross maintaining the people go to five temporal stages, and adjusting to the prospect of death
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
A common cause of death among infants in which an infant simply stops breathing
Terminal care
Medical care of the terminally Ill
