A woman who is dying of heart failure has become listless, distracted, and difficult to engage in conversation in recent days despite no obvious changes in her physiologic state
She has admitted to feeling severely depressed and states that this sensation is something new to her. How should her care team best interpret this new onset of depression?
A) The patient should be encouraged to accept her depression and see it as a reasonable response to impending death.
B) The care team should acknowledge the patient's depression but ensure that physical needs are prioritized over emotional symptoms.
C) The team should understand that depression is a normal stage of the grieving process that precedes death and should be accepted as such.
D) The patient's depression should be actively treated and not seen as an inevitability.
D
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