Exam 22: Nursing and Aging in Rural and Frontier Settings

You are interviewing an older adult at a community health care center in a rural farm community.What typically reflects his lifelong residency in a rural farming community?

The following are true about "swing beds" in rural hospitals except:

An older adult lives in a community of 4800 people.The nearest city is 90 minutes away.The prominent features of a rural area are:

What is true regarding the health status of rural-dwelling older adults? They are:

Your older adult client lives in a designated rural area.She owns her own home,where she has lived for most of her life,is recently widowed,and at age 84 has difficulty getting to a grocery store for food.With this information,your best description of her is that:

A 76-year-old patient is hospitalized after falling and fracturing her hip while visiting her daughter in a large city.She lives in a small farming community about 3 hours away from the nearest urban area.She is found to have hypertension.When questioned about her preventive health care practices,she reports that she does not have a primary care physician,that the nearest physician is a 3-hour drive,and that she takes garlic for her hypertension.In analyzing her health care maintenance practices,the nurse knows that: