The practice of nurses, nursing students, and faculty is affected by demographic changes due to:
a. the growing percentage of adults ages 50 to 55 years.
b. increasing numbers of obese children and adults.
c. changes by which families are becoming more nuclear.
d. social programs that are essentially eliminating poverty.
ANS: B
Correct: The United States is experiencing an epidemic of obesity with major consequences for health and the health care system.
a. The percentage of adults ages 50 to 65 years is not increasing. The number of very old adults is increasing.
c. Even the definition of family has changed radically, as evidenced by single individuals living with other single individuals, single-parent households, and same-sex couples (with and without children).
d. The number of families who remain uninsured, jobless, homeless, and surviving in poverty is increasing.
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