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- 4. Specific foods are person may eat can be affected by many things, including age, ethnicity, and spiritual practices.
- 5. Proper nutrition, including adequate protein and albumin, are required if this is impaired.
- 8. Open and honest dialogue is often needed to address nutritional concerns
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- 1. nutritional needs change throughout a person’s life; impairments in this may lead to issues with nutritional intake.
- 2. These must be balanced to have proper nutrition; nutritional intake may need to be adjusted if an imbalance is present.
- 3. This is necessary to correct nutrition impairment and ensuring the patient remains compliant.
- 6. Poor nutrition can slow down the body’s processes, causing fatigue; some disorders from this concept require special diets
- 7. Can be impaired with lack of adequate nutrition, leading to slower thought process and slower speech; an impairments with this concept can lead to inadequate or excessive nutrition intake