The Nurse Is Providing Education to a Group of Persons

Multiple Choice

The nurse is providing education to a group of persons from several community agencies about hoarding by elder persons. Which of the following is important for the nurse to emphasize?

A) Treatment will likely start to be effective in the short term.
B) If the person had help to clean up his or her environment, the hoarding would be cured.
C) It is not beneficial to tell the client that his or her thoughts and rituals interfere with his or her life or that his or her ritual actions really have no lasting effect on anxiety.
D) One agency should be able to address all of the client's needs.