The CNA approaches the older adult in the long-term care facility and says, "Oh, look! Your pretty dress is icky with food spots! Let's change your clothes, sweetie." The nurse identifies that the CNA is using which type of communication?

a. Instruction for personal hygiene
b. Encouragement for self-care
c. Simplistic "elderspeak"
d. Reorientation techniques


C
Elderspeak is a way of communicating with older adults that is infantile, oversimplistic, overso-licitous, and demeaning. It serves no therapeutic purpose.

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