Define a living will and discuss its purpose in relation to older adults
Answer:
A living will is a legal document allowed in some states that instructs health care professionals not to carry out certain life-saving procedures on terminally ill or severely disabled individuals. The purpose of a living will is to help the older adult maintain integrity in both life and death. Older adults often are much better at accepting death than are younger people, and living wills and other efforts to humanize dying allow dignity to be maintained through the end of life
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Infants can perceive differences between highly similar speech sounds by the age of one month, as evidenced by sensitization to the sounds "marana" and "marala."
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Sounds are converted into action potentials within the ________ and then transmitted to the ________
a. middle ear; cochlea b. cochlea; parietal cortex c. pinna; frontal cortex d. basilar membrane; auditory cortex e. basilar membrane; occipital cortex
A key source of our knowledge about the physiology of language is studies of __________.
A. blood flow to language areas in intact, normal people while they are talking B. non-human primates C. people who have suffered brain damage D. patients with brain tumors