The nurse is planning care at a retirement community. The nurse understands that, compared with a male of the same age, a 75-year-old woman is more likely to have a:
1. Living spouse.
2. Pension.
3. Disability.
4. Better education.
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Rationale 1: Men tend to have shorter lifespans than do women.
Rationale 2: Elderly women are less likely to have held jobs that provided a pension.
Rationale 3: More elderly women experience disabilities, in part because of their longer lifespans. Men tend to have shorter lifespans than do women.
Rationale 4: Most families believed that education of girls was less important than education of boys when the elderly were of school age.
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