A 66-Year-Old Retired Professional Basketball Player Is Admitted to the Hospital

Multiple Choice

A 66-year-old retired professional basketball player is admitted to the hospital for a total knee replacement due to osteoarthritis.In preparing preoperative teaching for this patient,you may want to include which theory of aging to help him understand how the disease has progressed?

A) Free radical theory
B) Wear and tear theory
C) Gene theory
D) Cross-link theory