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Title: An elderly couple who lived in the same home for the past 50 years have moved into an adult ...
Post by: ellielopezzz on Jan 20, 2018
An elderly couple who lived in the same home for the past 50 years have moved into an adult retirement center in a nearby town. Changes in lifestyle such as this couple is expe-riencing should alert the nurse to the possibility of:
 
  a. Acute grief
  b. Traumatic grief
  c. Chronic sorrow
  d. Adventitious crisis


Title: An elderly couple who lived in the same home for the past 50 years have moved into an adult ...
Post by: Thegameishere on Jan 20, 2018
ANS: A
Adjustment to life cycle transitions may initiate acute grief. This could be a situational crisis but not an adventitious crisis. There are no indications that this will become chronic and lacks the magnitude needed to result in traumatic grief.