Case Studies Emma Wiseman Is an Eighty-Five-Year-Old Widow and Retired Elementary School

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Case Studies
Emma Wiseman is an eighty-five-year-old widow and retired elementary school teacher.She lives alone and her closest relatives live about an hour away.She has a past medical history of breast cancer, hypertension, and osteoporosis.Emma currently takes 6 medications.She has been having difficulty opening her medication bottles and decided to put all of her pills into one container.After doing this she realizes that some of them look the same and she is unsure which medication she should take with her dinner.
-Emma reports that she has had decreased appetite and weight loss over the last 3 days.She may be suffering from:

• A)a medication error.
• B)medication side effects.
• C)anorexia.
• D)none of the above

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