During a nutritional assessment, a 79-year-old patient responds, "My weight is fine. I weigh the same as I did 15 years ago." The nurse responds based on the understanding that older patients
a. generally guess their weight rather than weigh themselves.
b. often rely on how their clothes fit to de-termine whether their weight has changed.
c. sometimes experience altered metabolic problems that hide weight change.
d. often exchange lean muscle mass for body fat so weight stays the same.
D
With age there is a loss of lean body mass and an increase of body fat; therefore, body weight alone can be misleading.
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