The nurse is working with a patient who tells her that he has presbyopia. The nurse interprets this to mean that the patient
a. has difficulty hearing
b. has difficulty digesting foods that are spicy
c. has difficulty initiating a urinary stream
d. has difficulty seeing due to the visual lens' inability to change shape
D
Presbyopia is the inability of the visual lens to change shape, causing farsightedness which is common in the middle years.
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