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1.1 Describe how cognitive, functional and emotional changes associated with dementia can affect eating, drinking and nutrition?

if a service users cognitive ability is no longer there, which means there process to know or understand, they could not know how to eat or drink, for example you may think they've had there drink but unknowingly to you they have tipped it away, and leading on to there functional ability they may have forgotten how to use there knife, fork and spoon so they could struggle to feed themselves or not be able to at all for that matter which in response could make them feel agitated and distressed effecting there emotional well being.

1.2 Explain how poor nutrition can contribute to an individual’s experience of dementia?

For an individual that's got dementia,

A quiet enviroment, may help them concentrate on eating, also food presentation for example if they have to have a pureed diet then they can use food utensils to shape the food into what its meant to be instead. e.g peas. shapes them into peas. so it looks more appertising. Service users may even prefer to eat in there rooms at a time that suits them, which is fine if it helps them eat the correct diet.

2.3 Describe how a person-centred approach can support an individual, with dementia at different levels of ability, to eat and drink? We can do things to help, such as looking in the service users care plan to find out more about them maybe there favourite foods, or example if they use to have fish and chips every friday, then they can have that on a friday, and it may bring back memories for them, a service user is also assessed to see if they need anything like a plate gaurd for example to keep there diginity abit more while at the table as it helps all the food stay on the plate. or see if they need special knifes and forks which they can hold