The nurse educator is instructing new graduate nurses on the differences in presentation and course of pneumonia in older adults. What differences should the educator include in this teaching?
A) Older adults often do not experience chest pain or exhibit a high fever
B) Older adults often develop sepsis before symptoms of pneumonia are evident
C) Older adults more often develop lung consolidation rather than production of secretions
D) Pneumonia in older adults is most often linked to exposure to environmental toxins over the course of a lifetime
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Older adults often fail to manifest a fever or chest pain with pneumonia. Older adults do not develop sepsis before other symptoms of pneumonia occur and do not develop lung consolidation rather than secretions. Pneumonia is not often linked to exposure to toxins over the lifetime.
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