The nursing instructor is teaching the students about degenerative diseases that affect both the musculoskeletal and neurologic systems. the student correctly identifies the disease that is a progressive deterioration of emotional, physical, and cognitive abilities as which?

Alzheimer's.

Explanation:

Alzheimer's disease may be defined as the medical condition in which the individual suffers from dementia. The individual is not able to remember the small events of his life.

The nursing instructor tells that the disease is neurodegenerative disorder and Alzheimer is also the neurodegenerative disease that affects the skeltal and nervous system of individual. The disease shows the deterioration of cognitive, physical and emotional abilities as seen in Alzheimer.

Thus, the answer is Alzheimer.

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