The nurse plans care for older adults who are in good health but isolated from their fami-lies. If the nurse's goal is to move the adults toward gerotranscendence, which interven-tion should the nurse use in the plan of care?
a. Give a daily tea party for the group.
b. Call each family to encourage visiting.
c. Assist them to resume midlife patterns.
d. Help each person with individual activities.
D
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A Incorrect. Individual activities or self-selected activities are satisfactory.
B Incorrect. Solitude is satisfactory.
C Incorrect. Midlife patterns are no longer relevant to contentment.
D Correct. In Tornstam's theory, aging offers the potential for gerotranscendence, a culmination of an individual's life, wisdom, and spiritual growth that allows the older adult to live contentedly with and without social activities. An older adult spends more time on meditation and solitude, and less time on materialism and self-consciousness about body image.
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