Question

Which of the following statements is not true for the urinary system?

With age, incontinence is a progressive problem.

The bladder has a diminished capacity because of atrophy, decrease in size, and decrease in elasticity with age.

Renal function does not change as adults move into later adulthood.

Renal function declines as people move into later adulthood.

Answer 1

With respect to the urinary system, it is not true that renal function does not change as adults move into later adulthood.

Step-by-step explanation:

As a process associated with aging, renal function can be affected by later adulthood, including the process of cellular aging, and multiple factors that can affect long-term kidney activity.

At the renal level it is possible to find processes of sclerosis, fibrosis, atrophy, chronic inflammation among others. The other structures of the urinary system can suffer structural alterations that, in the long term, affect renal function.

For this reason it is not correct to say that moving into later adulthood does not change renal function.