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The nurse identifies the older adult who is most likely to experience problems with role changes as the:
 
  a. 65-year-old grandmother who cares for her grandchildren while the mother works.
  b. 70-year-old retired business owner who comes to help his son run the business.
  c. 75-year-old retired physician who volunteers at a medical screening clinic.
  d. 80-year-old retired school administrator who takes educational foreign cruises several times a year.

Question 2

When the home health nurse suggests a grief resolution group to the older woman who was widowed 6 months ago, the widow furiously states,
 
  I don't want or need any help I want my husband back The nurse recognizes this behavior as being characteristic of the grief stage of:
  a. shock.
  b. searching.
  c. disorientation.
  d. reorganization.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A





 

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