The elderly may face all of the following special nutritional challenges EXCEPT
-increase in calorie needs
-decline in thirst signals
-increase in nutritional needs
-weakened sense of taste and smell

the aorta is the large artery leaving the heart branches into smaller arteries, which eventually branch into capillaries.the arteries carry oxygen and nutrients away from your heart, to your body's tissues. the capillaries are small, thin blood vessels that connect the arteries and the veins. the statement that arteries carry oxygen-rich blood to capillaries is true. veins on the other hand are blood vessels that take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart.

i think he will be okay, id probably take the dog to the vet just incase