Educating Your Patient with Diabetes
Diabetes affects an estimated 20 million people in the United States, with many people remaining unaware that they suffer from the disease. While the number of diabetics continues to rise, the number of caregivers who specialize in diabetes treatment does
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Contemporary Diabetes Aristidis Veves, md SERIES EDITOR
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Educating Your Patient with Diabetes Edited by
Katie Weinger, edd, rn Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
Catherine A. Carver, ms, aprn, bc, cde Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA
Editors Katie Weinger Joslin Diabetes Center Boston, MA [email protected]
Catherine A. Carver Joslin Diabetes Center Boston, MA [email protected]
Series Editor Aristidis Veves Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA
ISBN: 978-1-60327-207-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60327-208-7
e-ISBN: 978-1-60327-208-7
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Preface Educating Your Patient with Diabetes Those who provide diabetes education have a most important goal to support people as they struggle to normalize their lives with diabetes. Educators strive to help the person become an independent practitioner of diabetes, someone who can take advantage of community resources, make healthy lifestyle choices, and follow treatment recommendations and prescriptions. Of course, in reality, this dream is much too difficult for one person to achieve alone. Successful treatment of diabetes requires the coordinated efforts of the person with diabetes, the family, the community, and the multidisciplinary health-care team. Diabetes is ever more prevalent with an estimated 24 million people in the United States suffering from diabetes, some of whom are unaware of their diagnosis. New medications and t
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