An older adult client is brought to the emergency department with the complaint that he became overheated while sitting in the sun
The client states, "But I wasn't even perspiring!" What occurs with the older adult that decreases spontaneous sweating and makes him vulnerable to heat? A) Decrease in the number of eccrine glands
B) Increase in the number of eccrine glands
C) Decreased number of apocrine glands
D) Increased number of apocrine glands
A
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A decline in the number of eccrine glands, along with decreased cutaneous vascularity, causes a decrease in spontaneous sweating with age; this makes older persons more vulnerable to heat. Apocrine glands are found around the nipples, in the anogential region, in the eyelids, in the mammary glands of the breast, and in the eternal ear canals where the secretion is referred to as cerumen.
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