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A resident with advanced dementia is on a mechanical-soft diet with mildly thick liquids after a swallow study. Staff report that she coughs during meals and pockets food, and she has lost 2 kg this month. The aide gives her liquids through a straw so she 'drinks more.' What is the best plan?

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