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CASE STUDY 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 in the three months since being told, he has lost 11 kg in weight. Today he is listless and thirsty. |
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