| A | B |
|---|
| Influences on a Person's ideas about death | Age, Culture, Sense of Fulfillment, Religion, Family and Friends, |
| Palliative Care | Focus of care is controling pain and other symptoms including quality of life; making the resident as comfortable as possible. |
| Postmortem | After Death |
| Lividity | the pooling of blood under the skin after a person dies. |
| Signs of approaching death | elevated temperature; rapid or weak pulse; increased respirations; decreased BP; cold hands and feet; loss of movement; loss of speech.... |
| When you enter the room of a dying person: | Knock, introduce yourself and tell them what you need to do. |
| Emotional Stages of Death | Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance. |
| When a resident wants to talk about death: | Allow residents to talk about their feelings on death. |
| Denial | a person cannot accept that she has a terminal illness |
| Anger | a sying person may express anger, which is an expression of other feelings such as fear or frustration |
| Bargaining | making a deal: "If I stop smoking, then maybe I can live 1 more year." |
| Depression | Deep saddness |
| Acceptance | to feel at peace about a situation |
| rigor mortis | The stiffness of skeletal musles tha occurs after death. |
| rigidity | stiffness (rigor) |
