The nurse is performing a nutritional assessment on an 80-year-old patient. the nurse knows that physiologic changes can directly affect the nutritional status of the older adult and include:

The nurse should know the physiological changes that an elderly could inhabit due to late age, the nurse would likely assess the elderly has a slow motility in gastrointestinal, has decrease absorption in the gastrointestinal, has taste sensitivity and has decrease in visual acuity where they sight is not as clear as before.

try using substitution:

x + y - 6 = x - y. (i'm not giving you the exact answer). since 0 = x - y, then sub 0 in the equation with x - y. combine your like terms, and then use inverse operations, and you'll have your answer.

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