Mr. Robert McClelland, an 81-year-old, is a newadmission from the local hospital to your long-term care facility.After Mr. McClelland’s last bout with pneumonia and congestiveheart failure, his wife of 59 years has decided she is no longerable to care for him at home. Mrs. McClelland states, “He has justgotten too weak and can’t help me care for him. I am so afraid hewill fall and hurt himself. I am so worn out trying to care for himmyself. I have to bathe him and remind him to eat; sometimes I’vehad to feed him myself or he won’t eat. He can be so forgetful. Ihope I am making the right decision for him, because he neverwanted to go into a nursing home”

1. what is the primary and secondary sources ofinformation that you could use to help gather information aboutthis patient?
2. Differentiate the typesof data that can be elicited from these sources.

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