A health care provider is working with elderly clients who have ongoing chronic disease.Which of the following strategies can best assist them with healing?

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With chronic illness,the focus is on healing (a unique process resulting in a shift in the body/mind/spirit system)rather than curing (elimination of the signs and symptoms of disease).Appropriate goals include maximizing self-care capacity,managing chronic diseases effectively,preventing complications,delaying deterioration and decline,and achieving the highest possible quality of life before dying with comfort,peace,and dignity.It is probably impossible to eliminate signs and symptoms of the disease with a client who has a chronic disease.Advocating for increased support for elderly persons is not related to assisting the client with healing from the chronic disease.

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