The nurse is performing a nutritional assessment on an 80-year-old patient. the nurse knows that physiologic changes can directly affect the nutritional status of the older adult and include:

The nurse should know the physiological changes that an elderly could inhabit due to late age, the nurse would likely assess the elderly has a slow motility in gastrointestinal, has decrease absorption in the gastrointestinal, has taste sensitivity and has decrease in visual acuity where they sight is not as clear as before.