Death and Bereavement Flashcards
What is imperialist intervention?
People are deprived of their traditional vision of what constitutes health and death.
What is closed awareness?
Where only staff are aware that a patient is dying.
What is mutual deception?
Where both the staff and the patient know the patient is dying but do not talk about it.
What is open awareness?
Where both the staff and the patient know the patient is dying and discuss this openly.
What does ‘gradual slant’ mean?
Long, slow decline.
What does ‘downward slant’ mean?
Rapid decline.
What does ‘peaks and valleys’ mean?
Remission and relapse.
What does ‘descending plateaus’ mean?
Periods of decline and stabilisation.
Which 5 stages do people at the end of life typically go through?
1 - Denial.
2 - Anger.
3 - Bargaining (with god, or others).
4 - Depression.
5 - Acceptance.
What is the hospice movement?
Who founded it?
- An umbrella term for the growth of end of life and palliative care services in the UK.
- Founded by Cicely Saunders.
What is the difference between a biological death and a social death?
- Biological death - the end of the biological organism.
- Social death - the end of the person’s social identity (as seen by others).
List 3 things that might be seen in a person undergoing social death.
1 - Ceasing full membership in active society (e.g. on retirement).
2 - Loss of autonomy (e.g. moving into institutional care).
3 - The dying person is avoided or avoids others.
List 2 functions of the death ritual.
1 - May help acceptance by making the death visible.
2 - Alleviates feelings of guilt for survivors.
List 2 qualities / behaviours that a bereaving person might show.
1 - Withdraws from the external world.
2 - Other people may find it difficult to interact with the bereaving person.
List 5 conditions or behaviours that and / or bereaved people are at a greater risk of.
1 - Depression.
2 - Social isolation.
3 - Alcohol misuse.
4 - Use of prescribed and OTC drugs.
5 - Self-harm.
