Your Elderly Client Is Experiencing Pain and Incomplete Pain Relief

Multiple Choice

Your elderly client is experiencing pain and incomplete pain relief from the medications offered to him.Reluctantly,he expresses a desire to learn about meditation to augment the pharmacological mechanisms employed.What should you explain as you provide information about meditation?

A) It is efficient,taking less than 5 minutes.
B) It has been shown to decrease anxiety and depression,as well as normalize blood pressure.
C) It decreases short-term and long-term memory.
D) It cures all diseases.