Orem says that self-care ability is affected by a number of factors, including:
a. Ethnicity, age, and gender.
b. Age, gender, and developmental stage.
c. Age, developmental stage, health, and environment.
d. Health, environment, age, and gender.
C
Orem believes that every individual has some self-care ability, which is the day-to-day personal care needed to function and develop. This ability is affected by several things, including the in-dividual's age, developmental stage, health, and environmental factors.
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