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nramada

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A healthy client in the sixth decade of life comes to the physician's office for a routine physical examination. The client asks the nurse for general nutritional advice.
 
  The nurse will base this general nutrition advice on which of the following facts? 1. As people age, they need to take in more calories.
  2. The older adult cannot digest fatty foods properly.
  3. Older adults have more difficulty digesting carbohydrates than they do other food groups.
  4. Taking antacids before each meal prevents most gastric problems in the elderly.

Question 2

The nurse reefers to the traditional clinical signs of death as:
 
  1. Brain death.
  2. Heartlung death.
  3. Cerebral death.
  4. Clinical death.



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Answer to Question 1

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Rationale: Fat is not easily digested by the older client, who is more prone to diarrhea after eating fatty foods.

Answer to Question 2

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Rationale: The traditional signs of death are not referred to as brain death.




nramada

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Reply 2 on: Jul 22, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review


DylanD1323

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
:D TYSM

 

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