When an 86-year-old client complains of inability to concentrate, uneasiness, lightheadedness, weakness, muscle and joint discomfort, and demonstrates normal temperature, the clinic nurse recalls that:
A) without an elevated temperature, infection is not present.
B) the client's symptoms are typical of an older adult client.
C) an older adult can have an infection without a fever.
D) an infection was present and has dissipated.
Ans: C
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Older adults may not show a fever or may produce only a low-grade fever when an infection is present.
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