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Helping the patient with reduced hydration/nutrition 1: Maintaining the environment for eating and drinking

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Ben is a 33-year old man who has moderate learning disability together with hydrocephalus, spastic diplegia, visual impairment and epilepsy.

He enjoys life, but his plans to resettle in a small group community home are halted when he is diagnosed as having a carcinoma of the kidney with lung metastases.

He is normally well nourished, but he has become tense and easily startled at mealtimes and becoming increasingly reluctant to eat.