The nurse plans programming at a nursing home understanding that the defining impairment that affects almost all residents in a nursing home is
a. Alzheimer's disease or other cognitive deficit.
b. impairment in ability to perform activities of daily living (ADL).
c. profound hearing loss or other unspecified sensory deficit.
d. severe, progressive visual deficit.
B
Most residents have conditions that impair their self-help capacity or require interventions perti-nent to their ADL that they cannot perform independently. About one half have cognitive im-pairment. About 4 of 10 residents have visual problems and about one third have hearing loss.
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