Terminal Patients?? Awareness of Impending Death

2005 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 241???247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneke L. Francke ◽  
Dick L. Willems
Keyword(s):  
Impending Death

Understanding Terminal Decline in Cognition and Risk of Death

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Rabbitt ◽  
Mary Lunn ◽  
Danny Wong
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Intelligence Test ◽  
Practice Effects ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Risk Of Mortality ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
Intelligence Test Scores ◽  
Reduced Risk

There is new empirical evidence that the effects of impending death on cognition have been miscalculated because of neglect of the incidence of dropout and of practice gains during longitudinal studies. When these are taken into consideration, amounts and rates of cognitive declines preceding death and dropout are seen to be almost identical, and participants aged 49 to 93 years who neither dropout nor die show little or no decline during a 20-year longitudinal study. Practice effects are theoretically informative. Positive gains are greater for young and more intelligent participants and at all levels of intelligence and durations of practice; declines in scores of 10% or more between successive quadrennial test sessions are risk factors for mortality. Higher baseline intelligence test scores are also associated with reduced risk of mortality, even when demographics and socioeconomic advantage have been taken into consideration.

Biblical Knowing Toward Death

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
Ethics Law

This chapter examines the meaning of death for Jewish philosophical theology. How is the biblical view of life, ethics, law, and the pursuit of knowledge informed by the prospect of death or impending death? The Hebrew Bible is bracketed by the question of death, from the death at history’s inception that Adam and all subsequent human beings anticipate, to Moses’ unique death that awaits no other human at the Torah’s conclusion. Close readings of these narratives yield the notion that death allows for the potential of the absolutely supreme act of dying for others that informs all other acts of self-sacrifice. All the biblical cases focusing on a yearning for death or suicide, relating to Moses, Saul, Elijah, Jonah, Samson, and Job, involve this notion of a death on behalf of others.

Facing Death in Medical Training

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asunción Álvarez-del Río ◽  
Ma. Luisa Marván ◽  
Julieta Gómez Avalos
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Terminally Ill Patients ◽  
Student Views ◽  
Impending Death

This study explores how medical students feel about caring for terminally ill patients as well as how their medical courses prepare them for addressing end-of-life (EOL) issues with patients. Four hundred and five Mexican medical students were surveyed through the Student Views on Death questionnaire. The vast majority of students (94%) felt that physicians should inform patients of their impending death. Most students said they felt comfortable talking with (61%) or examining (76%) terminally ill patients. However, only half the students actually talked with patients about death. Participants in our study were interested in learning about EOL medical attention, yet most considered themselves poorly prepared to offer this type of care to terminally ill patients. The study provides objective data on a topic that has scarcely been explored in Mexico, data that will be useful in designing educational activities to improve EOL medical training.

Impending Death Under Anesthesia

1947 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 446-447
Author(s):  
H Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Impending Death

Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Maureen Turim
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Jewish Heritage ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
Delayed Maturation ◽  
Jewish Families

“Beginning with Jewish Survival: Freud’s Leaving Home” is a close reading of the complex references to Jewish heritage in Bier’s first feature-length film. Maureen Turim employs a psychological lens to assess the film’s distinct blend of comedy and tragedy, most particularly in its evocations of Freud’s delayed maturation, Rosha’s impending death, and their intense, ambivalent mother-daughter bond. The chapter further situates Freud’s Leaving Home in the context of contemporaneous films by Jewish directors that represent diasporic Jewish families in cultural transition.

Pain and Impending Death

2006 ◽  
pp. 185-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cicely Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Impending Death

scholarly journals Letter to the Editor: Clinical Signs of Impending Death, A Retrospective Descriptive Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 789
Author(s):  
Maria Ana Sobral ◽  
Daniela Runa ◽  
Miguel Julião
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Impending Death

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The Impact of Terminal Illness on the Spouse

1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Howell
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Terminal Illness ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
The Impact

This descriptive study explores the responses, concerns and problems of the hospitalized, terminally ill, cancer patient's spouse. The findings of the study suggest that spouses experience a deterioration in their health, disturbed thought processes, and a variety of emotional responses when confronted with the impending death of a husband / wife from cancer. Spouses are concerned about the physical symptoms, such as pain, experienced by the patient and their inability to communicate with him or her. The spouses’ problems centre on changes or anticipated changes in their lifestyle. An important finding of the study was the identification of a group of spouses who appear to be at risk. These spouses reported a high incidence of physical symptoms in relation to their own health, a high incidence of emotional responses, and numerous concerns.

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