Identify your client’s cultural Background and give Clues as to their Socioeconomic Status and Psychosocial Variables.

Identify your client’s cultural background and give clues as to their socioeconomic status and psychosocial variables. For example, your patient may be a senior living alone on a fixed income or might be living in a nursing facility with reputed staff.

Evaluating the Case Data

You will identify a case study and then develop a nutritional care plan for the client associated with that case.

Project tasks to be completed:

Task 1:

a. Choose from one of the following stages: pregnancy, infancy and childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

b. List the specific nutrition issues affecting individuals in your selected stage.

Task 2:

a. Choose a disease or medical condition that could possibly, or commonly, affect your individual. This could be anything ranging from diabetes to cirrhosis.

b. Using the ABCDs of nutritional assessment, create a case study based on an actual client or patient. You can also make one up. Include the following in your case study:

(i). Anthropometrics, relevant biochemical tests,clinical assessment, and dietary intake analysis.

c. Be sure toinclude a list ofcommon medications thatmay be usedto treatyour patient’s condition and identify potential herb/nutrient/drug interactions thatmay be relevant.

d. Identify your client’s cultural background and give clues as totheir socioeconomic statusand psychosocial variables. For example, your patient may be a senior living alone on a fixed income or might be living in a nursing facility with reputed staff.