When caring for older adults, the nurse expects to encounter the normal urinary age-related outcome of
a. urinary incontinence.
b. low-grade bladder infection.
c. nocturia.
d. urinary residual volume.
C
With age, increased urine formation at night leads to nocturia. The other findings are not age-related changes.
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