2014 Daily News
Diabetes educators positioned to lead in new era
Just as advances in medicine are changing the treatment of patients with diabetes, advances in academia are changing the development of diabetes educators and their paths to leadership in medicine, said longtime educator Angela McBride, PhD, RN, FAAN. Read more
Professionals can learn from patients online
Social media often has negative connotations of insensitive tweets and postings about what someone had for dinner. In the community of persons with diabetes, though, “social media” has become a dynamic education and counseling network, and diabetes professionals can become the students online to imp… Read more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has support from AADE and several other professional organizations, but work remains to make it work better for diabetes educators, physicians, nurses, dietitians, and pharmacists. Each of those groups was represented in a discussion of the ACA Thursday. Read more
Metformin is widely used as the antidiabetic drug of choice for people with type 2 diabetes, but it also may have benefits in protecting against cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke, and dementia. Read more
DSME program strengthens patient-centered medical home
Diabetes self-management education (DSME) can play a key role in strengthening the patient-centered medical home healthcare delivery model that emphasizes care coordination and communication to transform primary care into a system that focuses on what patients need and want. Read more
Persons in different generations with diabetes appear to learn in different ways, and diabetes educators need to understand how to adapt the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors™ to various generations of patients in ways that appeal to specific learning styles. Read more
Mobile health, telehealth care can increase access to diabetes education, expand practice
With the growing use of mobile phones and tablets, diabetes educators have an opportunity to increase patient access to diabetes education and expand their practices by engaging in telehealth care and using mobile health apps. Read more
Session offers guidance for patient behavior therapy
All too often, diabetes educators encounter patients who for any number of reasons have difficulty with diabetes self-management. And educators tirelessly work to facilitate lifestyle modification to help prevent or delay chronic disease and improve outcomes for their patients. Read more
Four breakout session speakers will highlight how their food banks have partnered with healthcare organizations in their communities to identify low-income people with diabetes, and provide them with healthy food choices, diabetes education and connections to healthcare services. Read more
Young adults ages 18 to 26 with type 1 diabetes have an average A1C that is significantly higher than what American Diabetes Association guidelines call for, and the A1C percentage is trending higher in this age group. Read more