Experience Human Development -
Chapter 19 Test
Thanatology - Answer Study of death and aging
Hospice care - Answer Warm, personal, patient-centered and family-centered care for a
person with a terminal illness
Palliative care/comfort care - Answer Care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing
the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity.
Terminal drop/terminal decline - Answer A frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities
near the end of life.
Bereavement - Answer Loss, due to death, of someone to whom one feels close and the
process adjustment to the loss.
Grief - Answer Emotional response experienced in the early phases of bereavement.
Grief work - Answer Working out psychological issues connected with grief.
Passive euthanasia - Answer Deliberate witholding or discontinuation of life prolonging
treatment of a terminally ill person in order to end suffering or allow death with dignity.
Active euthanasia/mercy killing - Answer Deliberate action taken to shorten the life of
terminally ill person in order to end suffering or to allow death with dignity.
Advance directive/living will - Answer Document specifying the type of care wanted by the
maker in the event of an incapacitating or terminal illness.
Durable power of attorney - Answer Legal instrument that appoints an individual to make
decisions in the events of another person's incapacitation.
Chapter 19 Test
Thanatology - Answer Study of death and aging
Hospice care - Answer Warm, personal, patient-centered and family-centered care for a
person with a terminal illness
Palliative care/comfort care - Answer Care aimed at relieving pain and suffering and allowing
the terminally ill to die in peace, comfort, and dignity.
Terminal drop/terminal decline - Answer A frequently observed decline in cognitive abilities
near the end of life.
Bereavement - Answer Loss, due to death, of someone to whom one feels close and the
process adjustment to the loss.
Grief - Answer Emotional response experienced in the early phases of bereavement.
Grief work - Answer Working out psychological issues connected with grief.
Passive euthanasia - Answer Deliberate witholding or discontinuation of life prolonging
treatment of a terminally ill person in order to end suffering or allow death with dignity.
Active euthanasia/mercy killing - Answer Deliberate action taken to shorten the life of
terminally ill person in order to end suffering or to allow death with dignity.
Advance directive/living will - Answer Document specifying the type of care wanted by the
maker in the event of an incapacitating or terminal illness.
Durable power of attorney - Answer Legal instrument that appoints an individual to make
decisions in the events of another person's incapacitation.
