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End of Life Planning: Living Wills and Advocacy in Death and Dying

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1.  An area for increased advocacy would be:
  1. Empowering marginalized communities with information and better access to care
  2. Listening
  3. Working with the caregiver
  4. Avoidance
2.  A chronic health condition:
  1. Lasts a year or more
  2. Requires ongoing medical attention
  3. Affects activities of daily living (ADLs)
  4. All of the above
3.  An issue that can cause conflict in a family during the aging process is:
  1. Assuming that the conversation will be easy
  2. Therapy
  3. Too many siblings
  4. Family living overseas
4.  The four components of end-of-life planning are:
  1. Grieving, anger, denial, sadness
  2. Identifying automatic negative thoughts, reframing, acceptance, perspective
  3. Completing advanced directive/living will, medical POA, distribution of assets, preferences for types of care
  4. Mourning, communication, listening, validating
5.  A caregiver for a loved one may experience this sign of burnout:
  1. sleeping too much
  2. Role confusion, having a hard time separating being a spouse/child from caregiving
  3. Overeating
  4. Rage
6.  A living will:
  1. Plans for digital assets
  2. Is the same thing as a living trust
  3. Distributes financial assets
  4. Is a legal document used to state certain future health care decisions only when a person becomes unable to make the decisions and choices on their own
7.  POLST/MOST forms:
  1. The last will and testament
  2. Can't be changed
  3. Shorter than an advanced directive and used in emergencies
  4. Can only be used if the caregiver says it's ok
8.  When addressing sibling dynamics, the social worker should:
  1. Set an agenda
  2. Let people talk over each other
  3. Only let the older sibling speak
  4. Have a meeting without the parent
9.  Limited knowledge of ________ can be a barrier to care.
  1. Medical language
  2. Disease Prognosis
  3. Disease symptoms
  4. All of the above
10.  Considering a client's cultural, religious, and spiritual beliefs is an important _________ consideration for both social workers and clients.
  1. Financial
  2. Timely
  3. Ethical
  4. Scary

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