Psychological issues in advancing and terminal illness

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Psychological issues in advancing and terminal
illness

• Chapter 12

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Important issues

• Infant mortality
• SIDS
• Death in adolescence and adulthood
• Death in middle age
• Death in old age

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Important issues

• The Right to Die
• Euthanasia
• Social interaction
• Communication issue
• Stages of dying
• Kubler-Ross

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Important issues

• Medical staff involvement
• Family therapy
• Counseling children
• Hospice
• survivors