A nurse is working with an elderly male client on a medical unit. Which statement demonstrates elderspeak by the nurse?
1. "It's time for us to go to physical therapy."
2. "I think it would be better if you were planning to go to a nursing home after discharge."
3. "Your children must really love their dad."
4. "Your wife must be having trouble adjusting to your illness."
Correct Answer: 1
Rationale 1: Elderspeak is a speech style, similar to baby, talk that gives a message of dependence and incompetence to older adults. Characteristics of elderspeak include inappropriate terms of endearment, inappropriate plural pronoun use (it's time for us to go to physical therapy), tag questions, and slow, loud speech.
Rationale 2: Telling the client that he needs to go to a nursing home is insensitive.
Rationale 3: Noting that the children love their father is not an example of elderspeak, but merely the nurse making observations to the client.
Rationale 4: Making comments about the wife's adjustments to the illness is not an example of elderspeak, but merely the nurse making observations to the client.
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