Question

Which of the following are correct statements about sensory changes: taste, smell, and touch? (three correct answers) Alcohol and tobacco are not believed to alter the way food tastes The five primary tastes -salty, sweet, bitter, tangy, and sour-decline with age. ■ Our ability to detect a wide range of different smells is not affected by hunger, social context, and expectations. With aging, reduced circulation of blood to the skin leads to a decrease in sensation The sense of smell is affected by medications, nutritional states, head injuries, and infections.

Answer 1

Option B, D and E are correct regarding the sensory changes tase smell and touch

Because sensory changes declies with age,with aging reduced reduced circulation to blood to the skin can lead to decrease in sensation and the sense of smell is affected by the medications, nutritional states , head injury and also by the infections.