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Nutritional Assessment The two identified patients are a child, ten years old, and an adult, 81 years old. Good health is a necessity in all ages and for all people today. It is necessary to have an account of awareness and practice that ensures the body is in a good state of health, sustainable at all times.

Even with the differences in the age differences, good health requires a good state of nutrition, regular check, and activity for sustainability.

Nutritional assessment for a ten-year-old boy

The boy is ten years old. He does not show complete signs of good health. He is malnourished n some way, and depicting signs of physical and mental weakness. The boy has an overall weight lower than the expected, with a height lower than the expected. The boy has a body mass index lower than the calculated within the Z score. There is the presence of malnutrition at a high rate. There is growth delay as demonstrated by the expected height and other body mass indexes. There are moderate and acute forms of chronic malnutrition occurring with wasting and stunted growth. These demonstrations indicate a predominant failure to thrive syndrome. There is a mild form of chronically stunted growth accompanied by growth failure and predominant. There is a case of emotional deficiency leading to this growth delay. There are mild cases of anemia, which occurs in the growth process of the child. From the anthropometric measurements, the child suffers scarcity in many of the performed measurements. The BMI index measurement falls within the normal rate but is not expected out of the ten years child. The clinical observations indicate that...

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There is a need for precautions that will ensure that the child has accessed equitable nutrition, possibly through a good diet. Moreover, the child has to access what is relevantly available for his physical well-being. The balance of the diet will ensure that the child acquires a good state of physical growth and eradication of secondary infections (Bowling 24).
Teaching plan

Objective: to create awareness of the need for increased activity and balanced diet in children at age ten

Recommended cultural diet

A balanced diet is a necessity for the child at ten years. The child has to feed more on the cultural food materials rich in proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, oils and fats, among others. The child has to keep doing physical exercises in the form of play activities. The child ought to be subjected to regular clinical checkup and assessment to get rid of the possibilities of secondary infections. Monitoring and assessment of the health are an imperative strategy that should be made key at all times.

Nutritional Assessment for an 81-year-old man

The old man is 81 years old but still appears to be going strong. From the physical observation, he is well strong at this age, active regarding speech and thinking. Nonetheless, several assessment options indicated the need for health actions to be…

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Bowling, Tim. Nutritional Support for Adults and Children: A Handbook for Hospital Practice. New York: Radcliffe Publishing, 2004. Print

Gibson, Rosalind S. Principles of Nutritional Assessment. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Print

Lee, Robert D. and Nieman David C. Nutritional Assessment. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2012. Print

Wilson, Susan F and Giddens Jean Foret. Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Pageburst E-Book on VitalSource5: Health Assessment for Nursing Practice - Pageburst E-Book on VitalSource. New York: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2012. Print


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