Answer to Question 1
D
Friendships can provide the commitment and support that is sometimes lacking in family rela-tionships.
Physical and psychosocial changes related to aging, such as declining health, reduced in-come, and mismatched needs, may cause a severe strain even for a couple who has been together for 50 years or more. A person who holds his or her family together by arranging get-togethers and documenting the family's history and rituals is known as a kin-keeper. The impact of the loss of a brother or sister, not only at the time of the death but also when a younger survivor reaches the age at which the lost sibling died, can be quite disruptive.
Answer to Question 2
A
This older adult is at high risk for developing constipation as a result of being on bed rest and being prescribed an opiate for pain. A decrease in activity, combined with the use of an opiate, often leads to constipation, not diarrhea. Appetite can be poor for the first few days after surgery, but it often returns without incidence. Decreased fluid intake is often supplemented with intra-venous fluids for the first few days after surgery.
Over nearly 30 years, humans removed many polar bears for a variety of reasons, from a population in
Older adults may grieve intensely over the loss of a person or situation that has been a part of the
Changes in Synaptic Density From Birth to Age 2 Synaptic connections increase throughout the first
Adolescence: 12 years or puberty to the beginning of adulthood.
Older people who exercise cognitive skills, like these chess players, retain those skills well into ...
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