Which agency dictates the eligibility and payment factors for Medicaid?

Your 89-year-old male patient has called for help because he almost passed out after bringing in his garbage cans from the curb. The patient lives alone and says that he became panicked when he started feeling so lightheaded and dizzy. Patients in this age group often undergo all of the following changes to their health, except:

A) sleep-wake cycle disrupted. B) deterioration of respiratory system. C) increased metabolism. D) blood volume decreases.

Vascular compensation for changes in blood pressure decreases with age due to:

A) a 60% to 70% decrease in sympathetic nervous system stimulation and catecholamine release. B) a marked reduction in renal function with increased sodium reabsorption in the renal tubules. C) left ventricular hypertrophy and the subsequent decrease in cardiac output that it causes. D) reduced elasticity of the peripheral vessels secondary to decreases in elastin and collagen.