When working with an older adult client, the nurse would be especially alert to the fact that this client is likely:
1. To sense pain more quickly than younger clients do.
2. Not to show signs and symptoms of infection as early as younger clients do.
3. To have a larger percentage of body fluids compared with young adults.
4. To have increased production of erythrocytes.
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Rationale: Older clients do not show signs and symptoms of infection and, as a result, are more likely to be more acutely ill by the time symptoms do show up.
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