Responds to the significance and validity of the downward spiral statement on Older Adults
Ans) Continued research and dissemination of best practices will lead to additional strategies that nurses can use to improve the quality of health care and outcomes for hospitalized elders.
- Assessment of function and targeting interventions during hospitalization are critically important to acute care of older adults.
- The impact of functional decline on resource utilization and health care costs may further reinforce the need to assess and intervene to prevent functional decline. Additional research on factors influencing functional decline will also provide information for nurses to present to administrators to develop programs to identify and mitigate functional decline in the hospitalized elderly.
Responds to the significance and validity of the downward spiral statement on Older Adults
QUESTION 1 The statement "On average, older adults have the same response time as younger adults" is an example of: O effect size O statistical significance. o the null hypothesis. o the research hypothesis.
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Explain what is meant by downward spiral in the life of an elderly?
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an important risk reduction for older adults is
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