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| 3568821245 | healthy life span | a term that means that older adults live as long as possible in as healthy a state as possible. | 0 | |
| 3568821246 | dying | the period during which the organism loses its vitality. | 1 | |
| 3568821247 | dying trajectory | the rate of decline in functioning prior to death. | 2 | |
| 3568823997 | anorexia-cachexia syndrome | a syndrome observed at the end of life in which the individual loses appetite (anorexia) and muscle mass (cachexia). | 3 | |
| 3568823998 | crude death rate | the number of deaths divided by population alive during a certain time period. | 4 | |
| 3568846411 | age-specific death rate | the crude death rate for a specific age group. | 5 | |
| 3568846412 | age-adjusted death rate | a statistic that combines all the age-specific death rates within groups of the population. | 6 | |
| 3568848412 | death ethos | the prevailing philosophy of death | 7 | |
| 3568848413 | tamed death | the prevailing view until the Middle Ages in which death was viewed as familiar and simple, a transition to eternal life. | 8 | |
| 3568848414 | invisible death | the current Western attitude where the preference is that the dying retreat from the family and spend their final days confined in a hospital setting. | 9 | |
| 3568850180 | social death | the process through which the dying become treated as nonpersons by family or health care workers as they are left to spend their final days in the hospital or nursing home. | 10 | |
| 3568851344 | stages of dying | the process considered to occur universally among terminally ill patients including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. | 11 | |
| 3568851345 | death with dignity | the idea that death should not involve extreme physical dependency or the loss of control of bodily functions. | 12 | |
| 3568852256 | good death | the opportunity for patients to have autonomy in making decisions about the type, site, and duration of the care that they receive at the end of life. | 13 | |
| 3568852257 | legitimization of biography | steps to leave a legacy that will continue to define oneself after one is gone. | 14 | |
| 3568853880 | awareness of finitude | thoughts about mortality that occur when individuals pass the age when other people close to them had themselves died. | 15 | |
| 3568855114 | Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) | passed in 1990, guarantees the right of all competent adults to have an active role in decisions about their care. | 16 | |
| 3568855115 | advance directive (AD) | also called a living will, which is a written order that stipulates the conditions under which a patient will accept or refuse treatment. | 17 | |
| 3568857443 | durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC) | also known as a health care proxy, is appointed to make decisions to act on a person's behalf should that person become incapacitated. | 18 | |
| 3568857444 | do not resuscitate (DNR) | directs health care workers not to use resuscitation if the patient experiences cardiac or pulmonary arrest. | 19 | |
| 3568858945 | palliative care | a request by dying patients that will provide them with relief from symptoms such as nausea, pain, and dyspnea as well as with some services such as physical and occupational therapy. | 20 | |
| 3568858946 | overtreatment | occurs when patients request palliative care but instead receive active life support that includes resuscitation. | 21 | |
| 3568860176 | physician-assisted suicide (PAS) | a process through which terminally ill individuals make the conscious decision, while they are still able to do so, that they want their lives to end before dying becomes a protracted process. | 22 | |
| 3568860177 | euthanasia | a process where physicans take actions that cause the patient to die, with the intention of preventing the suffering associated with a prolonged ending of life. | 23 | |
| 3568861237 | hospice | a site or program that provides medical and suppportive services for dying patients. | 24 | |
| 3568864011 | attachment view of bereavement | the view that the bereaved can continue to benefit from maintaining emotional bonds to the deceased. | 25 | |
| 3568864012 | dual-process model of coping with bereavement | proposes that the practical adaptations to loss are as important to the bereaved person's adjustment as the emotional. | 26 |
