Question

Virginia is an elderly patient at a care center who becomes ill with pneumonia and is taken to the hospital. At the hospital, the nursing assistant caring for Virginia notices that she is overweight and has sores on her body. She is also very fearful around people and hard to talk to. She has many bruises of various stages and struggles seeing without her glasses. Which symptoms should be the most worrisome to the nursing assistant?

Answer 1

the bruises are the
most concerning. the other things are more common but bruising could be related to elder abuse.

Answer 2

The bruises because she shows symptoms of elder abuse by being fearful of people around her.