Course Description
10-544-206 GERO: DEATH AND DYING ...study of losses across the lifespan associated with death and dying. Societal and personal views of death, dying, and bereavement and recommendations for healthy transitions in coping with loss will be explored.
Course Typically Offered
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What will I learn?
- Investigate attitudes toward death and dying
- Evaluate the influence of sociocultural forces on death and dying
- Summarize cultural and historical perspectives on death and dying
- Illustrate how persons deal with dying and death
- Outline modern health care services to the individual who is dying
- Explore end-of-life issues and decisions
- Explore the concept of the "Right To Die"
- Examine living with a life-threatening illness
- Compare and contrast death in the lives of children and adolescents versus adults
- Examine the issues surrounding suicide
- Relate to death by accident, violence, war, or disease
- Discover how survivors experience loss
- Assume responsibility for exploring death and dying
Class list
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Class Number: GERONT 10544206-1 - GERO: Death and Dying