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Older people produce less saliva which affects eating and swallowing, medication can have side effects on the digestive system as well. A decrease in physical activity and mobility can cause constipation and the lack of appetite.

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The ability to smell and taste food reduces as people age, problem with teeth makes chewing difficult. Many illnessess can affect the nutrition.

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The elderly
•produce less saliva
•may be physically challenged
•may have reduced senses
•may lack feeling of hunger or thirst
•may not cook for themselves and eat simple foods

All cause malnutrition

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Aging can affect nutrition because as you age it may become harder to feel the sensation of thirst or hunger. The elderly also produce less saliva, may have less sensation of taste and smell, and may be physically challenged when it comes to feeding themselves. All of these can lead to malnutrition.

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Aging can decrease the ability to taste and smell which can lead to malnutrition

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The ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age. Problem with teeth, makes chewing difficult. Many illnesses can affect nutrition intake. Which in all lead to malnutrition.

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The ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age. Problem with teeth, makes chewing difficult. Many illnesses can affect nutrition intake.

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The ability to smell and taste food reduces as people age because aging is connected to the changes the body make like Vitamin D and other important nutrients.

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Aging has many ways of affecting nutrition. Through decreasing the way you can actually taste and smell foods, reducing the feeling of hunger/thirst, and producing less saliva (which causes problems with swallowing ) which all can lead to malnutrition.

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It can decrease the ability to taste and smell which can lead to malnutrition.

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It can reduce the ability to recognize hunger as it can also there ability to taste as they proceed to get older in age

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Aging can decrease the ability to taste and smell. It can also lead to malnutrition

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It may reduce the ability to recognize sensation (hunger or thirst) And the ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age.

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The ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age. Many elderlypeople take a variety of medications which can affect the way food smells and tastes.

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Aging affects nutrition because it may reduce your ability to recognize sensation. For example, hunger or thirst. It also can make you prone to deficiencies in calcium vitamin D, vitamin B12, iron, magnesium, and several other nutrients several other nutrients.

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the ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age. older people produce less saliva, which affects eating and swallowing.

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Aging can lead to malnutrition. Older people tend to produce less saliva, this affects they way they eat and swallow. Aging effects the way food looks as well, there are lots of things that cause the elderly to lose their appetite.

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it might lower the audibility to recognize hunger and thirst

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The ability to smell and taste food and drink decreases as people age. Problem with teeth, makes chewing difficult. Many illnesses can affect nutrition intake. Which in all lead to malnutrition.

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It may Reduce your ability to recognize sensation like Hunger or Thirst. It can make you prone to Deficiencies in calcium, vitamin d, vitamin b12, iron, magnesium and several other nutrients.

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How does aging affect nutrition?