Death and Dying

Question 1

% people who die gently

Answer 1

20%

Question 2

Amount of deaths that are sudden

Answer 2

1/4– 80% heart attacks

Question 3

Amount of long, drawn out detahs

Answer 3

3/4– life saving medical technology

Question 4

Agonal phase

Answer 4

Suffering in first moments body can no longer support life

Question 5

Clinical death

Answer 5

Heart, breathing, brain stopped but can still resuscitate

Question 6

Mortality

Answer 6

Permanent death

Question 7

Brain death

Answer 7

All activity in brain and brain stem have stopped– irreversible

Question 8

Persistent vegetative state

Answer 8

Activity in cerebral cortex has stopped but brain stem still active

Question 9

5 attitudes towards death

Answer 9

Permanence
Inevitability
Cessation
Applicability
Causation

Question 10

Gender with more death anxiety

Answer 10

women

Question 11

Individual variation

Answer 11

Personal philosophy of death
Consistency of religious practices and beliefs
Symbolic immortality

Question 12

Kubler Ross Stages

Answer 12

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

Question 13

Appropriate death

Answer 13

Makes sense with person’s patetrn of living, preserves significant relationships and free of suffering

Question 14

4 coping styles

Answer 14

Dying as imprisonment
Mandate to live life even more fully
Part of life’s journey
Experience to be transformed

Question 15

Countries that withhold diagnosis

Answer 15

Eastern europe, south america, asia, midle east

Question 16

% that die in hospitals

Answer 16

40%

Question 17

% that die in longterm care

Answer 17

20%

Question 18

Amount of people that die at home

Answer 18

1/4

Question 19

Nursing home

Answer 19

Emphasizes rehabilitation rather than terminal care

Question 20

Hospice

Answer 20

Comprehensive support for dying and their families

Question 21

Euthanasia

Answer 21

Ending the life of a person suffering from an incurable conditon

Question 22

Voluntary passive

Answer 22

Withdraw treatment– advance medical directives

Question 23

Living will

Answer 23

People specify the treatments they would want in case of terminal illness, coma or near death situation

Question 24

Durable power of attorney

Answer 24

Appointment of another person to make health care decisions on one’s behalf

Question 25

Voluntary active

Answer 25

Medical staff act to end life at patient's request

Question 26

Assisted suicide

Answer 26

Staff provide means for patient to end their own life

Question 27

Involuntary active

Answer 27

Medical staff end life without patients consent

Question 28

Bereavement

Answer 28

Experience of losing a loved one by death

Question 29

Grief

Answer 29

Intense physical and psychological distress

Question 30

Mourning

Answer 30

Culturally specified expression of bereaved person's thoughts and feelings

Question 31

4 grief tasks

Answer 31

Accept reality of loss Work through pain of grief Adjust to world without loved one Develop inner bond with deceased and move on

Question 32

Avoidance

Answer 32

Emotional anesthesia

Question 33

Confrontation

Answer 33

More intense grief-- preoccupied with thoughts o the death

Question 34

Restoration

Answer 34

Dual process model of coping-- alternate betwen dealing with emotions and attending to life changes

Question 35

Sudden, unexpected detah

Answer 35

Avoidance from shock and disbelief

Question 36

Prolonged, expected

Answer 36

Anticapatory grieving allows emotional preparation-- display more persistent anxiety

Question 37

Disenfranchised grief

Answer 37

Sense of loss without opportunity to mourn publicly or benefit from social support

Question 38

Bereavement overload

Answer 38

Experiencing several deaths at once

Question 39

5 steps in resolving grief

Answer 39

``` Give yourslef permission to feel loss Accept social support Be realistic about course of grieving Remeber the deceased Engage in new activities and relationships ```

Question 40

Prevalence of incontinence

Answer 40

1/3-- 2x more women

Question 41

% who seek help for incontinence

Answer 41

25%- men after 4 years, women after 6

Question 42

Stress

Answer 42

Urine leaks durng coughing, sneezing, laughing-- overstrecthed pelvic muscles

Question 43

Urge

Answer 43

Nerves contolling bladderare overactive and involuntay action of bladder muscle occur

Question 44

Overflow

Answer 44

Enlarged prostate constricts urethra preventing bladder from emptying

Question 45

Functional

Answer 45

Untimely urination due to medical conditons that impair thinking

Question 46

Mixed

Answer 46

Usually stress and urge together

Question 47

Transient

Answer 47

Temporality leakage occurs due to acute infection or medication