“Culturally competent” health care providers
a. require the elderly to adapt their values to an institutional environment.
b. encourage the elderly to become dependent on their services.
c. help the elderly develop personal mastery of their changing environments.
d. motivate the elderly to ignore the aging process.
ANSWER: c
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