PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Terminal Illness
20 Sep 2017
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10 november 14: when the illness is terminal, the patient"s age. Death is not well understood by young children. Most children have experience with dying such as death of a close person. Although parents of child with a terminal illness sometimes decide not to tell them, they seem to realize their illnesses are extremely serious even when they are not told. Children should be told in an open, honest, and sensitive manner. Adolescents and young adults who develop terminal illnesses realize how unlikely dying at their ages is and feel angry about the senselessness and. Having a terminal illness seems especially untimely when victims have young children. Young adults seem to experience more anger and emotional distress when they have a life threatening illnesses than older individuals. Dying become less difficult as people progress from middle age to old age. It becomes less unexpected and less of a shock. The elderly have also made arrangements and preparations.
