CHN CU:9

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is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for
long periods.

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Long-term care

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must provide services and activities to attain or maintain the highest
practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident in accordance with a written plan of care.

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NURSING HOMES STANDARDS

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are small private facilities, usually with 20 or fewer residents

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NURSING HOME RESIDENTS

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designed for older adults who are able to remain independent and active, but need a helping hand

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ASSISSTED LIVING COMMUNITIES

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is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimizing quality of life and
mitigating suffering among people with serious, complex illness. whose diseases is not responsive to curative treatment

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PALLIATIVE CARE

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a way of caring for terminally ill individual and their families

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HOSPICE

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first hospice program was

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St. Christophers’ Hospice in London

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Parting with an object, person, belief or relationship that one values

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DEATH AND DYING

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Any significant loss of someone or something that can no longer be seen or felt, heard, known or experienced & that requires individual adaptation through the
grieving process

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Personal loss

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Loss that is less tangible & uniquely defined by the grieving client. Experienced by one person but cannot be verified by others.

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Perceived loss

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Change in developmental process that is normally expected during a lifetime. Loss that occur on the process of normal development.

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Maturational loss

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Loss of a person, thing or quality resulting from a change in a life situation, including
changes related to illness, body image, environment and death

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Situational loss

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Can be identified by others & can arise either in response to or in anticipation of a
situation.

Any loss of a person or object that can no longer be felt, heard, known, or experienced by the individual.

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Actual loss

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The total response to the emotional experience related to loss which is usually resolved within 6 months to 2 years

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Grief

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Grief which is brief but genuinely felt; lost may not have been sufficiently important to
the grieving person or may have been replaced immediately by another, equally
esteemed object.

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Abbreviated grief

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Process of accomplishing part of the grief work before an actual loss; grief response in which the person begins grieving process before an actual loss.

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Anticipatory grief

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prolonged emotional instability, withdrawal from usual task or
activities that previously gave pleasure & lack of progression from one level to successful coping with the loss

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Dysfunctional grief

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extended in length and severity,
bereaved may also have difficulty expressing the grief

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Unresolved Grief

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many of normal symptoms of grief are suppressed and other
effects, including somatic are experienced instead.

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Inhibited Grief

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Sequence of affective, cognitive & physiological states through which the person responds to and finally accepts an irretrievable loss

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Grieving process

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The behavioral process through which grief is eventually resolved or altered

Process by which people adapt to a loss which is influenced by cultural, customs, rituals, and society’s rules for coping with loss.

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Mourning

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Characterized by a confident, yet uncertain expectation of achieving a goal.

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Hope

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The point at which the loss has been resolved and the grieving individual can move on with life without focusing on the loss.

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Closure

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Any change the person perceives as negative in the way the person relates to the environment is loss of self.

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Loss of Aspect of Self

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Loss of inanimate object that has importance to the person

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External Object

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Separation from an environment and people who provide security.

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Accustomed Environment

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Loss of valued person or loved ones through illness, separation, divorce, broken relationship, moving, running away, promotion at work, or death

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Loved Ones

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Physical death, brain death, ability to reason. About pain and loss of control, fear of separation, abandonment, loneliness or mutilation.

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Loss of Life

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Occurs when the higher brain center, the cerebral cortex, is irreversibly destroyed

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Cerebral Death

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Stiffening of the body that occurs about 2 to 4 hours after death due to lack of
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP),which is not synthesized because of a lack of glycogen
in the body.

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Rigor Mortis

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Gradual decrease of the body’s temperature after death

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Algor Mortis

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Bluish discoloration of the skin after death.

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Livor Mortis

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Injection of chemicals in the body to destroy the bacteria.

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Embalming

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It is the immediate response to loss experienced by most people and it is a useful tool
for coping.

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Denial

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The client has no control over the situation and thus becomes angry in response to this
powerlessness

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Anger

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The anticipation of the loss through death brings about bargaining through which the client attempts to postpone or reverse the inevitable

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Bargaining

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When the realization comes that the loss can no longer be delayed, the client moves to the stage of depression

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Depression

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accept the inevitability of death, many want to talk about their
feelings with family members

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Acceptance