Funeral Directing Vocab 3

Question 1

A public transportation business, line or system which moves persons or goods from place to place. Fro the purpose of these regulations, this does not include a funeral director’s hearse or vehicle.

Answer 1

Common Carrier

Question 2

A lifeless human body or parts of such body or bones thereof from the condition of which it reasonably may be concluded that death has occurred. This term does not apply to amputated parts.

Answer 2

Dead Body

Question 3

Registration of a birth at or after age seven.

Answer 3

Delayed Birth Registration.

Question 4

Death prior to the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception, irrespective o the duration of pregnancy; the death is indicated by the fact that after such separation, the fetus does not breathe or show any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord,or definite movement of voluntary muscles.

Answer 4

Fetal Death

Question 5

The presentation of a certificate, report, or other record of a birth, death, fetal death, adoption, marriage, or divorce for registration by the Secretary.

Answer 5

Filing

Question 6

The burial, interment, cremation or other disposition of a dead body or fetus.

Answer 6

Final Disposition

Question 7

Any establishment, public or private, which provides in-patient medical, surgical or diagnostic care or treatment, or nursing, custodial or domiciliary care to two or more unrelated individuals, or to which persons are committed by law.

Answer 7

Institution

Question 8

The complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of human conception irrespective of the period of gestation, which, after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord or definite movement of voluntary muscle, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or the placenta is attached.

Answer 8

Live Birth

Question 9

A person authorized or licensed to practice medicine in this State.

Answer 9

Physician

Question 10

The acceptance by the Secretary and the incorporation in its official records of certificates, reports, or other records of births, deaths, fetal deaths, adoptions, marriages or divorces.

Answer 10

Registration

Question 11

The Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene.

Answer 11

Secretary

Question 12

Records of birth, death, fetal death, marriage, divorce, adoptions, and adjudication of paternity by law to be registered with the Secretary.

Answer 12

Vital Records

Question 13

Lodge led by the Worthy President and the Worthy Chaplain; offers a service which is suitable for either use at the funeral or as part of the committal service.

Answer 13

Benevolent and Protective Order or Elks

Question 14

A Jewish organization that offers a memorial service which is often conducted prior to the regular funeral service. It is appropriate for the Orthodox, Conservative or Reform branches of the Jewish religion.

Answer 14

B’Naj B’Rith

Question 15

An organization that offers a service which may be conducted at the home, the funeral home, the church, or the cemetery.

Answer 15

Order of De Molay

Question 16

An organization that is composed of the female relatives of Masons who hold a Master Mason degree or higher. There are 56 grand chapters in the United States and Canada. The executive order is the Most Worthy Grand Matron. This service is often conducted the evening before the funeral service or immediately following the funeral service, prior to departing for the cemetery.

Answer 16

Order of the Eastern Star

Question 17

An organization that has both a service designed to be conducted at the grave site as well as a funeral service which can be conducted a part of the funeral service. At the graveside service, pieces of evergreen are placed on the casket.

Answer 17

The National Grange

Question 18

An order that has no national guidelines regarding the various aspects of the funeral. The Noble Grand is the executive office of the order, and would be the person to contact to arrange for participation in a funeral service.

Answer 18

Independent Order of Odd Fellows

Question 19

An organization composed of members of the Roman Catholic faith. Led by the Grand Knight, this organization will usually hold a service the evening before the funeral mass, often immediately before or after the Rosary or Christian Prayer Service.

Answer 19

Knights of Columbus

Question 20

A lodge that has a service which can be used either following the regular funeral service or held at the grave. The presiding officer of the lodge will stand at the head of the casket and the chaplain will stand centered behind the casket.

Answer 20

Knights of the Golden Eagle

Question 21

Led by the Chancellor Commander, this lodge has both a funeral service and a graveside service. Can arrange to conduct one or both of these services. In addition to the Chancellor Commander, who stands at the head of the casket, the Vice-Chancellor and the Prelate stand at each side of the foot of the casket to form a triangle during the service.

Answer 21

Knights of Pythias

Question 22

This lodge has both a funeral service and committal service available. During the services, the officiating officers led by the Commander will stand at the head of the casket.

Answer 22

Maccabees

Question 23

An organization that has both a service to be conducted as part of the funeral and a service to be conducted at the graveside. The Master of Ceremonies will assist the funeral director in arranging and conducting the services.

Answer 23

Modern Woodmen of America

Question 24

An order led by the Noble Grand that will provide a service at the home, the funeral home, the church or the cemetery. If the services is to be held at the cemetery, it will follow the officiating minister. At that point, the members will position themselves around the casket with the Noble Grand at the head of the casket. Each member will place a flower on the casket at the conclusion of their service.

Answer 24

Rebekahs

Question 25

Led by the Oracle, who will stand at the head of the grave, during the committal service, this Order’s ritual is very loosely structured. Their services does not replace the final rites held at the committal service.

Answer 25

Royal Neighbors of America

Question 26

Governmental agencies designated in the Older Americans Act of the United States Congress to coordinate the delivery of services at the local level supported by Federal funds. Usually comprises a city, county, or group of counties whose respective agencies serve as information and referral sources for families seeking assistance with the care of an aging family member, or for an aging citizen in his or her own behalf.

Answer 26

Agencies on Aging– Local Area or State

Question 27

(Identified by German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906) the condition in which the subject suffers changes in memory, thought, personality, language and other characteristics, becoming progressively incapacitated and dependent until the occurrence of death, usually from a secondary cause.

Answer 27

Alzheimer’s Disease

Question 28

Services to provide minor home repairs, seasonal maintenance, or routine tasks that are beyond the physical capacity of the occupant. These can either be non-profit or for profit, and frequently under contract with an Area Agency on Aging to provide services to low income elderly, and often provided on a sliding fee schedule based upon the ability to pay.

Answer 28

Chore Services

Question 29

An individual, usually designated by a court to manage the financial assets of an incapacitated person. Generally used as a limited form of guardian; a protector, custodian.

Answer 29

Conservator

Question 30

The instrument of appointment of a person to protect, manage or conserve the assets of one who is incapacitated. Customarily applied to manage resources, and not the person, of the incapacitated ward.

Answer 30

Conservatorship

Question 31

A breaking of the law, either a misdemeanor or a felony; a violation of a statute or of the common law; to be tried in a criminal court.

Answer 31

Criminal Act

Question 32

The knowledge that one is performing an unlawful act; the intent to commit a crime.

Answer 32

Criminal Intent

Question 33

The American system of criminal justice; a network of police agencies, courts and correctional institutions with varying degrees of autonomy and interdependency, acting toward the common purposes of prevention and control of crime. The criminal justice system itself does not make laws, but upholds them. The responsibility is evident in the design of the three primary segments of the system: (1) enforcement, (2) adjudication, and (3) corrections.

Answer 33

Criminal Justice System

Question 34

An offense to be tried in a criminal rather than a civil court.

Answer 34

Criminal Offense

Question 35

In the context of abuse, to make illicit, unlawful or unethical use of, or to make a profit from, the labor or assets of another.

Answer 35

Exploitation

Question 36

Designating or of a person who holds something in trust for another; held in trust (as in property).

Answer 36

Fiduciary

Question 37

A person or agency, usually appointed by the court, who is given authority to control, manage, and protect a person and his or her financial and property assets. This person can be given authority to determine how finances are spent or invested, how and where a person lives, or how or when the person of concern is incapacitated and unable to make reasonable decisions regarding personal safety or property and asset management; and when there is no one available, capable, or willing to assume power of attorney. This person can be a relative or family member, or a total stranger (generally an attorney in the latter case, depending upon local court practices).

Answer 37

Guardian

Question 38

A special guardian appointed by the court to represent the interests of an individual declared to be incompetent, who is a party to a suit or certain litigation.

Answer 38

Guardian Ad Litem

Question 39

If the court finds that the proposed ward is incompetent in only certain aspects of life (e.g. forgets to pay bills), but retains capacity to function properly in other aspects (e.g. living and managing one’s own apartment), the court should appoint a guardian or conservator with powers to act only in the ward’s area of incompetence.

Answer 39

Limited Guardian

Question 40

A guardian appointed by the court, who is deemed to be an officer of the court. This person may be appointed to guardianship over many incompetent or incapacitated persons. The appointee may be paid for services from public funds or from assets of the incapacitated person of concern, if such funds are available. These determinations are made by the court.

Answer 40

Public Guardian

Question 41

A person, or agency, designated by the court to exercise control over the person and assets of an individual determined to be incompetent to do so. In this context, this means full, entire

Answer 41

Plenary Guardian

Question 42

Nursing, medication, nutritional, hygienic or other personal services provided to frail or invalid persons. Usually for short time periods; however, some forms of care can require daily visits for extended periods. Coordinated by hospitals, medical group practices, or Area Agencies on Aging.

Answer 42

Home Health Care

Question 43

Most commonly caused by medical conditions that tend to accompany aging, such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, accidents, mental illness, or heart conditions or other degenerative problems.

Answer 43

Incompetency (Incapacitated)

Question 44

A Latin term meaning “in the place of parents”. While usually used in cases involving the surrogate care of children, this term has been used in the context of long-term care of certain elderly, frail or incapacitated persons.

Answer 44

In Loco Parentis

Question 45

A person’s acting in behalf or in the interests of another upon request, or upon perceiving a need and governed by established criteria and accountability.

Answer 45

Intervention

Question 46

An attorney, legal consultant, or legal aid service organization that represents the interest of an individual or group of individuals, who usually are unable to represent themselves in matters of a legal nature.

Answer 46

Legal Advocate

Question 47

The legal responsibility or obligation to do or not to do a specific thing, or to behave in a certain manner. Failure to perform can result in civil or criminal prosecution, and penalties.

Answer 47

Liability

Question 48

A free-standing building or set-aside space in a larger structure (such as in a housing project) for the provision of low-cost or free nutritious meals for the elderly (over 60 years old) provided by funds authorized in the Older Americans Act. Coordinated by an Area Agency on Aging, as authorized by the same statute.

Answer 48

Nutrition Site

Question 49

A legal principle meaning that the state or the government can act to determine what is the best interests of an individual, even if the individual disagrees, on the basis of evidence of incapacitation or charges of personal or serious property mismanagement. Literally the “father of the country.”

Answer 49

Parens Patriae

Question 50

A public or non-profit service that acts on the suspicion or a report of evidence to determine if an adult is at risk for personal injury, harm, or less directly due to actions or inactions of others or to the personal inability to care for him or herself or property. These agencies generally undertake case management or referral until the charges are verified and resolved to the advantage of the individual or concern, or dismissed as invalid.

Answer 50

Protective Services, Adult

Question 51

Physical or psychological abuse of a spouse that has not been a characteristic of the marriage until one or both partners are advanced in age. Such mistreatment is associated with personal changes or altered circumstances that are linked to being elderly or to personal aging.

Answer 51

Spouse Abuse (Late-Onset)

Question 52

Physical or psychological abuse of a spouse; abuse that has been characteristic of the marriage for many years. With elderly couples, such abusive behavior has been part of the marital relationship for more than half of the marriage’s length. Causes for such mistreatment are not related t aging or to age-related events of the marital partners.

Answer 52

Spouse Abuse (Longstanding)

Question 53

An authorization, a signed document, usually to family members or business partners, to manage financial affairs in specific ways in the event of death.

Answer 53

Living Trust

Question 54

A trust in which the Trustee, fearful that the beneficiary will not handle his or her assets wisely, can use discretion in disbursing monies to the beneficiary.

Answer 54

Protective Trust

Question 55

Signed, dated and witnessed document which allows the subject to state in advance wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining procedures when dying. It also has a provision for the appointment of someone else to direct care if the subject is unable to do so.

Answer 55

Living Will