Emma Wiseman is an 85-year-old widow and retired elementary school teacher. She lives alone and her closest relatives live about an hour away. She has a past medical history of breast cancer, hypertension, and osteoporosis. Emma currently takes six medications. She has been having difficulty opening her medication bottles and decided to put all of her pills into one container. After doing this
she realizes that some of them look the same and she is unsure which medication she should take with her dinner. This situation may have been prevented by identifying Emma as ____.?
A) ?part of a low-risk group
B) ?one who takes multiple medications
C) ?one who needs herbal products
D) ?one who should consider alternative medicine
B
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