Question

The daughter of a 79-year-old woman asks the nurse why her mother gets so many infections. the daughter states, my mother has always been healthy, but now she has pneumonia. last month she got cellulitis from a bug bite she scratched. the month before that was some other infection. how come she seems to get sick so often now? what is the nurses best response?

Answer 1

The nurse best response is to tell the daughter of a 79 year old woman that as the body of the people is getting older the immune system of the body does not respond as well as it did when it was younger.