A nurse assesses a client in their home and determines they are on a pathway towards frailty. What assessment findings lead the nurse to have this concern? Select all that apply.
1. Chronic use of pain medication
2. Diagnosis of diabetes and heart disease
3. Newly incontinent of urine
4. No children and recent death of spouse
5. Inability to drive to healthcare appointments
2. Diagnosis of diabetes and heart disease
3. Newly incontinent of urine
4. No children and recent death of spouse
5. Inability to drive to healthcare appointments
Explanation: 1. Chronic use of medications that can impair immunity (corticosteroids, antineoplastic agents) can lead towards frailty, not the use of pain medications.
2. Diagnosis with several chronic illnesses, each of which alone and in combination with others can cause harmful effects on overall physiological function, can lead towards frailty.
3. Changes of aging and loss of organ reserve and function in the very old can lead towards frailty.
4. Change in social and psychological environments can lead towards frailty.
5. Factors, such as functional loss, can lead towards frailty.
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