Regarding Physical Touch for Older People

question 41

Multiple Choice

Regarding physical touch for older people:

• A) most do not enjoy being hugged or touched.
• B) older people with dementia have less of a need for hugging and touching.
• C) a gentle touch can provide social support.
• D) a touch on the hand can arouse the older person sexually.

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Definitions:

Symmetry

The property of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis; often evaluated in statistical data sets.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution of data wherein most observations cluster around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally in both directions.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and then dividing by the number of values.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of a set of data where most values cluster around the mean.