Which Two Conditions Are Major Risk Factors for Entering a Nursing

question 136

Multiple Choice

Which two conditions are major risk factors for entering a nursing home?

• A) breaking a hip and Alzheimer's disease
• B) cancer and heart disease
• C) vision and hearing impairments
• D) pneumonia and the flu

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Definitions:

Moral Component

This refers to the aspects of decision-making that involve ethics, values, and principles of right and wrong.

Mediating Agent

An entity or factor that intervenes or facilitates a process or interaction between other entities or phenomena.

Biological Impulses

Innate and instinctual drives that determine behavior, such as hunger, thirst, and the need for sleep.

Preconscious

A term in psychoanalytic theory referring to the part of the mind that contains thoughts, memories, and feelings that are not currently in conscious awareness but can be accessed.