Our population is aging, and with the increased numbers of patients reaching age 65, health care has had to change its focus. What is one focus of health care today?
A) Management of chronic conditions and disability
B) Increasing need for self-care among the aging population
C) A shifting focus to disease management
D) Management of acute conditions and rehabilitation
Ans: A
Feedback: There is increasing concern about emerging infectious diseases, trauma, obesity, and bioterrorism. Therefore, health care must focus more on disease prevention, health promotion, and management of chronic conditions and disability than in previous times. The other answers are incorrect because the change in focus of health care is not an increasing need for self-care among our aging population; we are shifting our focus away from disease management, not toward it; and we are moving away from the management of acute conditions to managing chronic conditions.
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