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lunatika · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

The nurse is helping an older female patient understand the difficulty of finding a sexual partner at this time in her life. What is generally true of the elderly population?

A) Most men and most women are still married
B) Most men are married and most women are widowed
C) Most men are widowers and most women are married
D) Most men are widowers and most women are widows

Question 2

The nurse works with cancer patients and their families to deal with difficult issues. Which of the following reasons supports why a diagnosis of malignant melanoma may be extremely difficult for patients to accept?

A) It cannot be detected early enough to improve the prognosis.
B) It is a high risk in fair-skinned individuals, and incidence increases with age.
C) It has been rising in the United States, probably due to sun exposure.
D) It causes a small percentage of total deaths from cancer but is metastatic and fatal.

yifu223 · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B
Feedback:
A practical interference with sexual function in later life is the lack of a partner, particularly for older women. By 65 years of age, there are only 7 men to every 10 women; by 85 years of age, the ratio becomes 1 to 5 . Furthermore, there is a tendency for men to marry women younger than themselves; one-third of men older than 65 years of age have wives younger than 65 years of age; therefore, most older men are married and most older women are widowed.

Answer to Question 2

D
Feedback:
Malignant melanoma is metastatic and fatal. It can be detected early enough to improve diagnosis. Choices B and C, though true, are not the difficulty that cancer patients must contend with once their malignant melanomas are diagnosed.