Elderly And Death

Question 1

Cardio-Respiratory Death

Answer 1

Heart stops beating and lungs stop working.

Question 2

Persistent Vegetable State (PVS)

Answer 2

No hope of consciousness returning.

Question 3

Suicide

Answer 3

When somebody ends their life die to pain, by accident, of many other reasons.

Question 4

Hospices

Answer 4

Elderly go there for care and to die.

Question 5

Care Homes

Answer 5

Elderly go there for care when they do not want to be cared for at home and for a chance to socialise.

Question 6

At Home (caring)

Answer 6

Stay at gone carers available 24/7.

Question 7

Quality of Life

Answer 7

A measure of fulfilment.

Question 8

Passive Euthanasia

Answer 8

Letting a person die by withholding treatment.

Question 9

Active Euthanasia

Answer 9

Deliberately acts to end life.

Question 10

Voluntary Euthanasia

Answer 10

At the request of the person who dies.

Question 11

Involuntary Euthanasia

Answer 11

When the person is somehow unable to make a meaningful choice between leaving and dying so an appropriate person will make a decision for them.

Question 12

Indirect Euthanasia

Answer 12

Providing treatment that has the side effect of sealing the patients death. No intention the kill.

Question 13

Neo-Cortical Death

Answer 13

Brain stem cells still works but the cerebral cortex is severely damaged.