The health assessment of an 86 year old Asian male who is physically and financially dependent on his working single daughter (who also has children to care for) has hypertension (HTN), gastroesophageal reflex disease, b12 deficiency, and chronic prostatitis can require cultural competence while caring for this patient. One must determine socioeconomic status as this gives information about nutrition buying ability. Daines, Baumann, and Scheibel (2016) share assessing environmental concerns as they can affect health risks.Assessing if the patient has health insurance as this affects the purchase of medications.