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    What is aging? Is it a word? Is it a look? Is it something that happens to us as our birthdays come year after year? Well according to Adult Development and Aging sixth edition (The Meaning of Age) Aging normally consist of three processes the first one is called primary aging which is a normal disease free development during adulthood. During this time period many changes occur. The second one is called secondary aging which is the development changes that are related to disease‚ lifestyles and

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    Children Coping with Chronic Illness Children living with chronic illness are faced with everyday challenges that frequently force them to cope in different ways. According to Midence (1994)‚ ten to twenty percent o all children in the United States suffer from a chronic illness. The most common chronic childhood diseases are asthma‚ congenital heart disease‚ chronic kidney disease and sickle cell disease. Children are often quite vulnerable and lack education and experience about coping‚ especially

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    Coping with Death

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    Tami Jakel PY529 02-07-05 Coping with Death People cope with the loss of a loved one in many ways. For some‚ the experience may lead to personal growth‚ even though it is a difficult and trying time. There is no right way of coping with death. The way a person grieves depends on the personality of that person and the relationship with the person who has died. How a person copes with grief is affected by the person’s cultural and religious background‚ coping skills‚ mental history‚ support systems

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    everyone’s dying process is unique. Many people think of dying as merely a physical process‚ but dying is an experience of the whole person and is influenced by a combination of physical‚ psychological‚ social‚ cultural‚ and spiritual factors. There are as many ways to die as there are to live‚ so in order to better understand how people who are dying experience the process‚ researchers and clinicians have developed different models or theories that attempt to account for how people cope with dying. THEORIES/MODELS

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    aging and death

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    FEAR OF AGING AND DEATH Forever 21: Americans Fear of Aging and Death Christianna Newton Liberty on Line Liberty University Online PSYC. -210-D33 –LUO This paper is going to be about the views that American’s views on aging and the perspectives of death. Americans attitudes also on these two points will be coved in this paper. Relationships will also be covered between life and death. Overviews on death studies will be explained in this paper. This paper

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    Death and Dying

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    inaccessible so that its value is diminished or removed”. Loss is the experience and feeling you get when dying. It has been felt by the individual dying as well as their family members and their significant others when their loved one is being taken away from them. • Grief is the emotional/behavioral reaction to loss. It occurs with loss caused by separation as well as loss caused by death. It is a very normal process‚ but it normally takes several months to work through. Grief could come in the

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    The heart and lungs functionality can be restored even if there is a complete and irreversible loss of all brain function with the use of artificial machinery. This has led to the proposal of a new set of clinical signs; the definition of ‘brain death’ is:‘the functionality of respiration and circulation is lost along with consciousness‚ thought and feelings.’ A lot of questions emerge‚ because with this reasoning if a person has spontaneous functioning of heart and lungs but no other vital signs

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    Death and Dying

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    The Stages of Dying and of Losing a Loved One Usually‚ a person (or their loved ones) will go through all or some of the following stages of feelings and emotions. The dying person’s stages can often be more predictable than the stages experienced by a loved one who has just suffered a loss. 1. Denial • The dying person being able to drop denial gradually‚ and being able to use less radical defences‚ depends on: - how he/she is told about his/her status; - how much time he/she has to acknowledge

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    On Death and Dying By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross For my book review‚ I read On Death and Dying‚ by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Dr. Kubler-Ross was the first person in her field to discuss the topic of death. Before 1969‚ death was considered a taboo. On Death and Dying is one of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century. The work grew out of her famous interdisciplinary seminar on death‚ life‚ and transition. In this paper‚ I give a comprehensive book review as well as integrate

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    providing end of life care to children. End-of-life care is also known as palliative care and it is the care that is given to someone who is terminally ill and dying. Palliative care‚ as defined by the Department of Health (200b)‚ is the holistic‚ individualised care of someone who has been diagnosed with an incurable or life-limiting illness. (The Open University 2009). Here in the UK the NHS is responsible for people’s health and palliative care has been a medical speciality since the early 1980s

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