Health Sciences 2711A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Biopsychosocial Model, Social Death, Social Inequality
7 Jan 2020
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Studied have found that our values and beliefs can guide us through these difficult times when we lose someone. Older people must make decisions about their death like funerals and wills. Most people wish for is a long healthy life span: they live as long as possible in as healthy of a state as possible. Generativity and ego integrity: people want to leave something behind and have an impact on people"s lives. Death should be thought in biopsychosocial: biological event with psychological factors for the person dying and the people they leave behind, social context of time, place and culture. Death: is the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or when they brain as ceased functioning. Dying is the period of time which the organism loses its vitality. Commonalities in the physical changes shown by a person whose functions are moving toward point of death.
