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1
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What would you see a decrease of before death

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Activity
Interest
Temp
BP
Breathing regularity

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2
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What are the three phases of death

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Agonal
Clinical death
Mortality

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3
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What is the agonal phase

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First phase of death - the process of actually dying

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4
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What is the clinical death phase

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No vital signs, but you can be resuscitated

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5
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What is the mortality stage of death

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Permanent death - no vital signs and cannot be brought back

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6
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Is there a lot of honesty surrounding death? why

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No, doctors dont want to give up on treatments or the patients

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7
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Is the fear of death common

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Yes

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8
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Death anxiety ____ with age

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Declines

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9
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When is death anxiety the lowest

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Late adulthood

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10
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What gender is more anxious about death

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Women

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11
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What commitments can limit death anxiety

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Spirituality/religious

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12
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Do you often see death anxiety in children

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NO

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13
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What scale measures death anxiety by rating a scale of questions from 1-5

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Collett lester fear of death scale

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14
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What does a higher score on the CL-R indicate

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More death anxiety

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15
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What test measures death anxiety with T/F statemtns

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Templer’s Death anxiety scale

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16
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What did kubler ross come up with

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The stages of dying

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17
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What are the 5 stages of dying

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Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

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18
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Why is kubler ross’s stages of dying controversial

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We shouldnt push people to acceptance, nor does everyone reach every stage

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19
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What consequences of simplistic interpretation of the 5 stages of death have

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HCP can try to puss patients through the stages
HCP might dismiss a dying patient’s concerns

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20
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What is an appropriate death

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One that makes sense in the terms of the person’s patterns of living and values

Free of suffering as possible

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21
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What were the results of the music in palliative care experiment

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less anxiety in experimental group
Less fatigue following sessions

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22
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What can music do for those in palliative care

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Uplift and stimulate patients
Can enhance pain medication effects

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23
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Passive euthanasia

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Life saving treatment is withheld allowing patient to die naturally

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24
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Voluntary active euthanasia

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Doctors act directly to end suffering before a natural end to life

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25
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Assisted suicide

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Doctors prescribe drugs so that terminally ill can end their own lives

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26
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What is the benefit to assisted suicide over voluntary active euthanasia

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Allows patients control, better in case they change their mind since theyre taking it themselves

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27
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What are the three tasks associated with grief

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Accepting the reality of loss
Working through the pain
Adjusting to the world wihtout a LO

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28
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Avoidance

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Shock and disbelief when hearing about death

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29
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Emotional anesthesia

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gives our bodies a bit of time to adjust, you dont feel anything at first

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30
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Confrontation

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Confronting reality of loss,

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31
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What stage of grief has the most intense grief

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Confrontation

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32
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What stage of grief do people learn to overcome loneliness and restart their lives

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Restoration

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33
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Restoration

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stage of grief do people learn to overcome loneliness and restart their lives

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34
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Confronting reality of loss, widest range of emotions

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Confrontation

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35
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What stage of grief has emotional anesthesia

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Avoidance

36
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What gender seeks social support less

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Men

37
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Who is at risk of bereavement overload

A

elders

38
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What is bereavement overload

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occurs when a person experiences several deaths in sucession

39
Q

What age does late adulthood start

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65

40
Q

What are the three subgroups of late adulthood

A

Young old
old old
oldest old

41
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Young old

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Need no assistance, can live on their own, still active

42
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Old old

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May need some assistance, but can live fairly independantly

43
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Oldest old

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Unable to take care of themselves - lives in nursing home or with family

44
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Elderspeak

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Talking down to seniors, using nicknames, talking loudly and slowly

45
Q

Name 6 things that can change life expectancy

A

Gender
Income
Education
Ethnicity
Country
Twins

46
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relationship between twins and life expectancy

A

Twins live longer than those who aren’t

47
Q

When is the peak benefit of having a twin in men

A

Mid 40s

48
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When is the peak benefit of having a twin in women

A

Early s

49
Q

What is typically more impacted with age: vision or hearing

A

Hearing

50
Q

What gender is usually more hearing impacted with age

A

men

51
Q

What gender is usually more visually impacted with age

A

Women

52
Q

what happens with cataracts

A

Proteins develop on the lens - like looking out a dirty window

53
Q

What is the leading cause of blindess in late adulthood

A

macular degeneration

54
Q

what percent of older adults experience macular degeneration

A

10-30

55
Q

Name risk factors for macular degeneration

A

Light eye colours
High fat diet
Lack of exercise
Age
Genotype
Smoking
UV light

56
Q

What is tinnitus

A

perception of sound without stimulus

57
Q

perception of sound without stimulus

A

Tinnitus

58
Q

what percent of adults over 65 have tinnitus

A

33

59
Q

What can happen if people treat elderly people as if they incompetent

A

can increase dependancy

60
Q

what gender has higher rates of suicide in late adulthood

A

men

61
Q

Why is divorce more manageable at middle adulthood

A

because children are grown and youre more established with you job

62
Q

Why can the cross sectional research be not as accurate regardiing IQ

A

new generations have higher education, and acess to better health care

63
Q

what does longitudinal research show with IQ

A

that it increases in performace with age

64
Q

What intelligence declines earlier for women

A

FLuid

65
Q

What intelligence declines earlier for men

A

Crystalized

66
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Fluid intelligence

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Analyzing info, working memory, skilled based

67
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Crystallized intelligence

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What you know, facts and skills etc

68
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What type of intelligence declines more quickly after retirement age

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Fluid - adding things up quickly, driving etc

69
Q

does RT increase or decrease from age 20

A

increase

70
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Name the 2 hypotheses for RT increasing with age

A

neural network view
information-loss view

71
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Neural network view

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RT increases because when neural connections break, new ones are formed around the breaks and are less efficient

72
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information loss view

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RT increases because older adults lose more information as it moves through the system, gotta slow down to process it all

73
Q

What do you gain in middle adulthood

A

Expertise
creativity

74
Q

what are the 3 periods of vocational development

A

Fantasy period
tentative period
realistic period

75
Q

fantasy period

A

early - mid childhood
fantasizing abut career options

76
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tentative period

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11-16, kids think about careers in terms of interests/abilitys and values

77
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realistic period

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late teens-early 20s
narrowing options

78
Q

On average, how much sooner do girls hit puberty than boys

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2 years

79
Q

When do hormonal changes occur starting puberty

A

Around 8-9

80
Q

What are growth hormone and thyroxine relevent for

A

Body growth and skeletal maturation

81
Q

What causes sexual maturation

A

Sex hormones

82
Q

In puberty, what parts of the body grows first

A

Hands, legs feet
Reverse of proximodistal trend

83
Q

Primary sex characteristics

A

Ones to do with reproduction

84
Q

Secondary sexual characteristics

A

More visible changes, like boob size, facial hair - attribute to attraction so indirect to reproduction

85
Q

What is different about the adolescent circadian rhythm

A

Its shifted forward a few hours

86
Q

Name 2 causes of circadian rhythm changes in adolescents

A

biological - melatonin release
behavioural - only so many hours in a day to do all the things teens do

87
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A

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