The nurse is preparing to conduct a teaching session with older adults at a community center. When teaching about health, what should the nurse include?

1. Health is the absence of infirmity.
2. Health includes freedom from disease.
3. Health includes the ability to work.
4. Health includes physical and social well-being.


Answer: 4

1. Health is defined as more than the absence of infirmity.
2. The definition of health includes absence of disease but includes other concepts as well-being.
3. The definition of health does not specifically include the ability to work.
4. Health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

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