Situation: Judy Montgomery, an 85-year-old client with Alzheimer's disease, developed a serious complication of pneumonia and is now attached to a respirator. Knowing that for a comatose client, hearing is the last sense to be lost. As Judy's medical assistant all through her stay in the hospice, what should you do?
A) Tell her family that probably she can't hear them.
B) Talk loudly so that Judy can hear you.
C) Tell her family who are in the room not to talk.
D) Speak softly then hold her hands gently.
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