Nutrition education: the older adult with diabetes
| Autor: | Carolyn L. Templeton |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
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Nutritional Sciences Teaching Materials Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Nutrition Education media_common.quotation_subject Population MEDLINE 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Clinical nutrition Health Professions (miscellaneous) Patient Care Planning 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Patient Education as Topic Intervention (counseling) Health care Diabetes Mellitus Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education media_common Aged education.field_of_study business.industry Variety (cybernetics) business |
| Zdroj: | The Diabetes educator. 17(5) |
| ISSN: | 0145-7217 |
| Popis: | The dietitian, working with other members of the health care team, plays a very important role in developing a care plan for the older person with diabetes. Often individuals in this age group have so many health care needs that nutrition intervention may be low on the priority list. Optimum nutrition is essential to maintain health and well-being as well as to keep blood glucose levels in the target range. The dietitian who works with this population must be very skilled at multifaceted assessment. He or she must be able to correlate all the information gained to creatively design, with the patient and caregivers, a workable dietary intervention, and be able to adapt instruction techniques and tools for a wide variety of educational needs and abilities. Knowledge, skill, experience, confidence in judgment and, most important, sincere caring are all important to the process. Nutrition education should be individually tailored and incorporate patience, kindness, humor, understanding, and above all a respect for the differences that make each older person an individual. |
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