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| aging, growing old; study of aging |
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| Lack of biological adaptability |
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| decreased physical, social and psychological ability to change with aging. |
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| people born between 1946-1964 in the post-World War II marriage boom. |
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| Theory that elderly sever friendships by as part of a more general disengagment from society. |
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| the frequency with which disease occurs; heart disease cancer and strokes top three causes of death. Majority not institutionalized. |
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| the placement of a person in an institution, where he or she eats, sleeps, and spends working time (or what should be working time). |
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| following directions, especially as given by health care provider for patient health. |
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| chronic diffuse mental deterioration in a conscious patient, manifested primarily by memory loss and secondarily by behavioral or emotional changes. |
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| loss of memory for time, person, and place. |
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| cover-up in which the patient fabricates or makes up events. |
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| acronym for activities of daily living: getting out of bed, walking, dressing, washing, toileting and eating. |
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| chronic self-destructive behavior |
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| mentally allowing death when death need not occur, including chronic suicide, giving up, and dying of a broken heart :( |
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| Living will and appointment of heath care agent made while patient is competent in case patient is unable to express his or her wishes. |
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| document expressing patient's wishes on resuscitation, intubation, and artificial means of sustaining life like artificial hydration or nutrition. |
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| person named in advance to have power of attorney for health care decisions if patient is incompetent. |
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| person mentally capable of making legal decisions. |
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| Restore to life by squeezing hearth, inflating and ventilating lungs, and giving chemicals intravenously after patient has stopped breathing. |
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| put tube down windpipe in order to ventilate lungs |
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| Circulation of blood through a machine to take over functions of the kidneys. |
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| unable to control flow of urine or feces, resulting in urination of defecation at any time. |
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| Comfort measures only (CMO) |
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| treating for comfort only with no attempts to prolong life. (quality, not quantity of life) |
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