Nutritional Needs Task 4 P3/M1

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Influences on dietary intake - Task 4 P3/M1- (all combined) Rose is a 92 year old lady who has dementia. She lives by herself in a flat in Tower Hamlet she is coping very well with support. Rose has a range of possible influences on her dietary intake due to her age. Firstly, Roses diet could be affected due to mobility. This could affect her diet due to her not getting enough food as she may not be able to walk very far to the shops or catch buses to the shops easily any more. Rose has a range of options she could think about to overcome the problem of shopping for food. Rose could have the ‘meals on wheels’ this is where an individual will bring meals around to Roses house for every dinner time and tea time. The meals are already prepared therefore; Rose will not have the worry of preparing her meals. All Rose would have to do is warm her meal up either in the oven or the microwave. Furthermore, if Rose does not have meals on wheels she has the support of carers and her daughter this is where they will come to Roses home and prepare meals for her. Furthermore, older adults need a diet filled with vitamin D as this new diet needs to replace the natural vitamin D which a person gets from the sun. An older person needs to introduce a diet filled with vitamin D due to a person not going outside as much, therefore they have no way of getting the essential vitamin D. Rose has mobility problems therefore Roses diet may be influenced as her body may not be able to get the vitamin D like it use to. Rose will have regular appointments from the GP this is where the GP will realise the new need for a vitamin D filled diet and will suggest her thoughts to Roses careers and daughter. This is where her careers will then change Roses diet in order for the new vitamins to be replaced. Furthermore, Rose has dementia and because of the illness Rose may lose her

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