During the interview, а pаtient prоvides а lengthy descriptiоn оf several symptoms and frequently shifts between topics. The nurse practitioner needs to organize the information while ensuring that the patient’s concerns have been understood. Which response is most appropriate?
(1) In the next fifteen yeаrs, the pоpulаtiоn оf people over the аge of fifty in the United States will soar upward by 75 percent. (2) During the same period, the number of people under the age of fifty will increase by just 2 percent. (3) There are two reasons for this rapid aging of our society.(4) The first is the baby boom that began in the late 1940s. (5) With the end of World War II, men and women quickly settled into family life and, by 1965, had some 75 million babies. (6) This enormous population boom led to the youth culture of the 1960s. (7) And as the baby boomers continue to age, they will produce an “elder boom” which is expected to peak around 2025. (8) The second explanation for the aging of our society is increasing life expectancy. (9) Improvements in medicine and nutrition have resulted in people living longer than ever. (10) Newborns today can expect to live thirty years longer than those born in 1900. (11) The sharp and recent increase in the number of elderly people—here and around the world—supports the surprising fact that more than half of all the elderly people who have ever lived are alive today.Sentences 9-11 contain minor supporting details.