What are the benefits associated with telehealth technology? (Select all that apply.)

A home health nurse is making a home visit to an older adult client. A nurse conducts a home safety assessment and screens the environment for potential hazards for falls. The nurse recommends that the client eliminate which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

In reviewing an older adult's insurance history, you find that he is on Medicaid. What do you know that Medicaid is used for?

Across the country, temperatures are in the high nineties to low hundreds Fahrenheit and your client has no air conditioning. You know that due to the elevated temperatures, hyperthermia can result. Which of the following tips to prevent hyperthermia should you tell your elderly client? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse assesses an older adult's cognitive status using a standard assessment instrument. Which of the following are cognitive assessment tools? (Select all that apply.)

Medicare is a big issue for the older adult who depends on this medical insurance to pay for his or her hospital bills, medications, and rehabilitation. When talking to your older client about what Medicare will pay for and what it will not, what do you tell your client that Medicare will not cover the cost of?

Which is the fundamental difference between Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B?

An older client is being discharged from the hospital to a sub-acute unit. The client says to a nurse, "I am not sure I understand the difference between a sub-acute unit and a nursing home. Can you help me understand?" The nurse considers which of the following in formulating a response:

An older adult client who is cognitively intact and has decision-making capacity makes a decision to stop chemotherapy for breast cancer after being told of further spread of the cancer. The client's daughter is upset at her parent's decision an approaches the nurse and states: "I don't agree with the decision to stop treatments, I am my parent's health care proxy, I want to override that decision." What is the best response by the nurse?

An older adult client who was a veteran of World War II has just died. His widowed wife did not work and does not have sufficient funds to afford supplemental Medicare insurance. You would recommend which one of the following?

A group of older adults in an assisted living facility are talking about one of the residents who fell and fractured her hip. The residents ask a nurse the following: "It seems like so many of us fall and break our hips, and then it is downhill from there. Is this really true?" in formulating a response, the nurse considers which of the following? (Select all that apply.)