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Optional Learning Exercises 63. When bathing 69. When you are eating with an older person, you notio vegetables that taste fine to you W she puts salt on may be a reason she does this? 1 an older person, what kind of soap should be used? 70. What exercises will help a person with circulation changes who must stay in bed? Often no soap is used on the Fill in 64. What can happen if a nick or cut occurs on the feet? ComaL Dement Disaster Electrica Why 71. What can the nursing assistant do to prevent respiratory complications from bedrest? can this happen? 65. Because bone mass decreases, why is it important to turn an older person carefully? 72. The stomach and colon empty slower and flatulence and constipation are common in the older person. What causes these problems? 1. W sta 66. Why does an older person often have a gradual loss of 2. Th height? ch 73. How will good oral hygiene and denture care improve 3 67. What types of exercise help prevent bone loss and loss food intake? ar of muscle strength? 74. How can a nursing assistant help prevent urinary trac as infections in an older person? or 68. Older people have changes in the nervous system. When the changes listed occur, what can happen? A. Nerve conduction and reflexes are slower 4. B 75. Why should you plan to give most fluids to the older person before 1700 (5:00 PM)? 5 th B. Blood flow to brain is reduced. 6. A C C.Touch and sensitivity to pain and pressure are reduced 7 W 8. P

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Q. No. 71. Answer :

Nursing assistant can do prevent the respiratory complications of bedridden patient :

* ambulation of patient should be done that means position changing second hourly,

* keeping Fowlers position while feeding,

* breathing exercises should be done to improve oxygen saturation.

* educate to avoid smoking and exposure to passive smoking.

Q. No. 73. Answer :

Good oral hygiene and dentures could improve the food intake, because during night times we will close our mouth and we will sleep, so that time anaerobic bacteria will stay on our mouth parts, so after that in the morning we should need to do brushing, to clean that bacteria,

* when the bacteria cleans and we are in hygiene automatically the Hunger will increase,

* if we will not clean there is a development of infection so that there is no adequate hunger.

* so some another problems may arises.

* so that good oral hygiene and dentures hygiene may increases food intake.

Q. No. 74. Answer :

* due to unhygienic practices or due to loss of care for bed ridden old-age people, and poor intake of oral fluids they have more chance to get urinary tract infections .

* if the old age people are having urinary or Foley catheter means cleanliness should be follow around the catheter.

* advice the client to take adequate oral fluids to decrease urinary tract infections.

* educate to wear cotton under clothes.

* personal hygiene should be maintained.

* educate to avoid intake of caffeine and alcohol, which will irritate bladder.

So that we can prevent the Urinary tract infections.

Q. No. 75. Answer :

We will give more fluids to the older people before 5 pm, because they will be get dehydrated easily and to prevent dehydration we will give fluids.

* and also if we will give at night times they can not able to go at night times frequently to excreat urine, due to the old-age they have less detrusar muscles strength so they may get frequent urination at night times.

* due to some environmental changes and if they are having any diabetisellitus.

* so we will prefer to give before 5 pm.

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