Ending Life Well: Conversations & Connections
End-of-Life Puzzle By Alex Trevino , Bilingual End of Life Specialist
Imagine, just for a second, that everything you lived through, your memories and experiences, and the things you know for a fact suddenly fade from your mind. This is a reality for more than 6 million people in the United States. This month we celebrate the fight against Alzheimer's disease and the investment in brain health. Let’s celebrate by taking steps towards a healthy and active brain. Crossword puzzles are just one of many fun ways to exercise your brain. We invite you to complete our end-of-life puzzle and test your knowledge of Advance Directives, as well as encourage you to complete your Advance Directives if you have not already done so.
decisions beginning today. 12. Organization whose motto is “Aging Well for Life” and provides expert services, advocacy, and unbiased information for older adults. 15. Best time to complete your Advance Directives. Across: 4. Advance Directives can be revoked or _____ at any time and for any reason. 5. You can have multiple of these named in your Powers of Attorney. 6. Document that describes the type of life-sustaining treatments that a person does, and does not wish to receive. 7. When completing the Advance Directives, this person cannot be your healthcare provider or caregiver, and they cannot be named as your Medical or Mental Healthcare Power of Attorney. 10. Instructions a person completes ahead of time regarding their own care, in the event they may not be able to communicate. 11.Medical intervention designed to save troops on the battlefield when a soldier’s heart stopped beating. 13. In the absence of a Medical Healthcare Power of Attorney, this is someone who has the legal right to act on your behalf as defined by statute rather than the quality of the relationship. 14.As many as 50% of people will become____ at some point in their lives. 16.Type of care intended to relieve symptoms rather than cure the illness or prolong a patient’s life. 17. Someone appointed by a judge to make decisions, often after a long or difficult legal court proceeding.
Down: 1. Similar to hospice care with the difference that a patient is able to receive and pursue curative treatment. 2. The phone number for PCOA’s _____ is 520-790-7262. 3. Without a legal End of Life Care Plan, healthcare providers ______ provide aggressive, and life-sustaining treatment. 8. Document indicating that a person refuses all heroic or aggressive treatments to save their life if their heart or breathing stops. 9. It is a common ______ that appointing a Medical Healthcare Power of Attorney grants authority for that agent to make all of their healthcare
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