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Across 2. An illness that potentially may cause the patient's death. 4. The use of aggressive medical techniques to diagnose illness or injury, relieve symptoms, provide treatment, and sustain life. 7. An aspect of the scientific method applied in medicine which results in focusing more on the disease than on the patient. 9. An illness defined as having no known cure and likely to result in death. 10. A reaction to stress in which a caregiver goes beyond the state of exhaustion and depression to "past caring." 11. Medically supervised or supportive care provided in a person's home. 12. A medical facility designed to provide long-term residential and supportive care for patients whose illness does not require acute, intensive care.

Down 1. The use of multiple sophisticated medical techniques to sustain life and delay death. 3. A medical institution designed to provide short-term intensive care of patients. 5. An illness of long duration or frequent recurrence. 6. The study of older people and the processes of aging. 8. Temporary care that allows family members or other caregivers a break in caring for a patient.