A 65-year-old male client complains to the nurse about often feeling cold and wants to know the reason. What would be the best reason that the nurse could provide in the response to the client's question?
A) The skin of an elderly person tends to be more fragile.
B) Elderly people usually have impaired circulation.
C) Elderly people have less subcutaneous fat.
D) Epidermal turnover decreases in elderly people.
C
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The 65-year-old client frequently feels cold, because as people age, they have less subcutaneous fat. This leads to loss of the skin's insulating function and, therefore, heat is lost more rapidly in the elderly. Impaired circulation among older adults causes a loss of skin elasticity, not a loss of the skin's insulating function. A decrease in the epidermal turnover makes the skin thinner. As a result, many older adults heal poorly and are at increased risk for pressure ulcers, fungal or viral skin infections, and skin cancer, but the decrease in epidermal turnover does not affect the insulating function of the body.
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