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G and D Aging and Death

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  • Person who specializes in the elderly
    Gerontology
  • The scientific care of the body after death is called
    Mortuary Science
  • Another name for the Funeral Director
    Mortician or Undertaker
  • _____ is a special type of care, palliative, for terminally ill Pt's
    Hospice
  • Expert on the subject of death
    Elizabeth Kubler Ross
  • A reduction in the amount of oxygen in the blood may occur- what body system is this?
    Respiratory
  • Condition where bone mass diminishes or becomes porous
    Osteoporosis
  • The Integumentary system is the _______
    skin
  • In order, the five stages of death and dying
    Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
  • A progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects memory, thinking, and behavior.
    Alzheimer's
  • ____ tissue replaces muscle tissue in the heart
    Fibrous
  • A wasting away of muscle tissue causing decrease in strength
    muscular atrophy
  • The kidneys ______
    shrink
  • Women between the ages of 45-50 experience the start of ______
    menopause
  • What system weakens and leaves the elderly more susceptible to diseases?
    Immune System
  • Diverticulosis may occur which causes little pouches in what organ?
    Colon- Large Intestine
  • The person who would remove the blood and replace it with a preservative fluid after death
    Embalmer
  • The study of aging?
    Gerontolgy
  • May experience difficult defecating which is known
    constipation
  • Males experience a decrease in testosterone which may lead to ____
    Impotence
  • _____ decreases which is the contraction of the stomach and intestines that move food through digestive tract.
    Peristalsis
  • Heart valves become
    thicker
  • The body system that causes a decline in adrenal gland production for both males and females (hormone body system)
    Endocrine
  • _____ (word that means the source of sexual urges and instincts) remains
    Libido
  • ______ die at an increased rate and those that remain are degenerating (Nervous system)
    Neurons
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