You Are the Nurse Caring for an Elderly Patient with Cardiovascular

You are the nurse caring for an elderly patient with cardiovascular disease. The patient comes to the clinic with a suspected respiratory infection and is diagnosed with pneumonia. As the nurse, what do you
Know about the altered responses of older adults?

A) Treatments for older adults need to be more holistic than treatments used in the younger population.
B) The altered responses of older adults reinforce the need for the nurse to monitor all body systems to identify possible systemic complications.
C) The altered responses of older adults define the nursing interactions with the patient.
D) Older adults become hypersensitive to antibiotic treatments for infectious disease states.