Across
- 3. mentally allowing death when death need not occur, includes chronic suicide, giving up, and dying of a broken heart
- 9. aging, growing old
- 10. born between 1946 and 1964 as a result of post–WWII marriage boom
- 11. written before death expressing patient’s wishes on resuscitation, intubation, and artificial hydration or nutrition
- 12. chronic self-destructive behavior
- 14. a loss of memory for time, person, and place.
- 15. physical, social and psychological decreased ability to change with aging
- 17. a plastic tube put in the veins, and taped to the skin to administer medicines and fluids
- 19. the normal activities of daily life, such as getting out of bed, walking, dressing, washing, toileting, and eating
- 21. mentally capable of understanding relevant risks, benefits, and alternatives
Down
- 1. cover-up in which the patient fabricates or makes up events
- 2. the elderly sever friendships as part of a more general disengagement from society
- 4. treating for comfort only—no attempts to prolong life; i.e. quality not quantity of life
- 5. Living Will and Health Care Agent made while person is competent in case unable to express their wishes in the future
- 6. person who eats, sleeps, and spends working time in the same place
- 7. person named in advance to have power of attorney for health care decisions if patient is incompetent incontinent inability to control flow of urine or feces
- 8. plastic tube usually placed through the abdominal wall into the stomach for artificial feeding
- 13. following directions especially as given by health care provider for patient health
- 16. chronic diffuse mental deterioration in a conscious patient, manifested primarily by memory loss, and secondarily by behavioral and emotional changes
- 18. cardio-pulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, heart is squeezed, and lungs are inflated and ventilated with chemicals given intravenously after patient has stopped breathing
- 20. put tube down windpipe hooked up to machine called a ventilator to keep breathing going.