An older patient, recovering from surgery, is prescribed a soft diet. The nurse realizes that this diet supports which age-related change?
1. decline in gastric motility
2. reduced intestinal absorption
3. lactose intolerance
4. gall bladder insufficiency
Correct Answer: 1
A soft diet helps with this change in the older adult. Reduced intestinal absorption is not a gastrointestinal age-related change. Lactose intolerance can occur at many ages. Gall bladder insufficiency is not a gastrointestinal age-related change.
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