Aconfused older adult patient in a skilled care facility is sleeping. a health care worker enters the room quietly and touches the bed to see if it is wet. the patient awakens and hits the health care worker in the face. which statement best explains the patient’s action?

He's having Sun-downer's Syndrome

Explanation:

The confused elderly patient should be suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s disease which causes this Sun-downer's syndrome. This behavior is been exhibited in the late afternoon or evening. It is mainly due to the hormonal imbalance.

These patients tend to loose themselves and the after math is that they don’t remember a single thing of what they did or said during the previous night. It should be a result of the neurons that has stopped working in the brains.