To assess nutrition risk for the person in your care, check the following questions. If the answer to most of the points is Yes, the person is at risk and you need to contact the doctor for a diet. Answer the questions every six months or whenever you notice big changes in weight or eating habits.
- Has she recently lost weight? About how much?
- Has she had any recent appetite loss?
- For how long? (days, weeks, months)
- Does she have difficulty chewing?
- Does she have difficulty swallowing?
- Food allergies?
- A special diet?
- Have you been given instructions about her diet?
- Does she eat fewer than 2 meals per day?
- Does she eat few fruits, vegetables, and dairy products?
- How many servings per day?
- Fruits?
- Vegetables?
- Dairy?
- Does she drink more than 3 alcoholic beverages per day?
- Does she eat most of her meals alone?
Agree with your philosophy about life..
Both my parents died in 2006 just 8 weeks a part. We still had to leave for another state two thousand miles away for my husband had accepted another job. We had to leave so soon that I never had the time for mourning their deaths and within a year I had 17 friends, relatives and best friends pass. With that and having to leave my job, college and home behind, I went into a state of depression and sadness I never knew before. I have been sick with Valley Fever for over a year since my immune system was down. We have sense then moved back to our home state with family and friends and new job. My level of health has returned to just about 100 percent and I have found a way to deal with the sadness so I hope with sharing this it can help others as well. I am starting a scrap book with my parents pictures and little sayings they had and habits and crafts of theirs. I am including me and what they did for my life and how I shared their enjoyments and accomplishments. This is a time of joy and enhancement and up lifting my spirit. I hope this can help someone else too. I found stickers, pictures, advertisements, poems, frames, buttons, leaves, etc, etc and it is turning into a good fun time past time experience with my parents life and mine. Not everything has to be in the past but can also include the present and be passed on as inheritance to my children. I really enjoy this and it has added to my sense of healing. Cheri
greenkoi, Non sequitur much? Also, Yoda syntax you have.
Death is a natural part of life. The deadliest thing you can do is be born. The fear of loss is the path to the dark side. Rejoice for those who pass and rejoice the life they lived. Miss them do not. Mourn them do little.[ Attachment leads to jealousy, which is the shadow of greed.