Objective To evaluate perceptions of safety and effectiveness of a provincial type 1 diabetes (T1D) school care plan, and to best inform future improvements in school care to accommodate the shifting needs of families, best clinical practices, and new medical technologies. Methods A cross-sectional...
TASKS AT SCHOOL: What Key Personnel Need to Know What Key Personnel Need to Know DIABETES MEDICAL MANAGEMENT PLAN 1-800-DIABETES .diabetes 2 Goal: Optimal Student Health and Learning Each student should have a Diabetes Medical Management Plan (DMMP) as the foundation for all school-based care....
it is you – the person with diabetes – who should claim the success for anything that works. After all, you are responsible for over 90% of your diabetes care and management. My only spin on this is that I’ve turned the steps into the acronym “U-...
Your child’s 504 plan should be updated each year. This plan along with school policies will determine what supplies your child will carry with them and what supplies will be kept in the nurse’s office. Make sure that the school nurse and staff members have a clear understanding of thech...
Care guide for Diabetes and Exercise (Discharge Care). Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
For anyone with diabetes, which can cause nerve damage in the extremities, foot care is important. A podiatrist is trained to treat feet and problems of the lower legs. These doctors have a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) degree from a college of podiatry. They have also done a residenc...
Care guide for Diabetes and Nutrition. Includes: possible causes, signs and symptoms, standard treatment options and means of care and support.
For students living with diabetes, acclimate to managing their care without your day-to-day support can feel daunting. Creating a diabetes management plan — one that includes helpful technology,continuous glucose monitoringand a little communication — can ease this transition. Here's how t...
In participants with T1D, the reasons reported for not having an established source of diabetes care included not having health care coverage (30.6%), recent change in health insurance plan (11.1%), unaffordability of care (11.1%), and a recent move (11.1%). In participants with T2D in ...
. Deborah Wexler, "Barriers accessing health care, including lack of health insurance and high drug costs, remain major factors that have not been adequately addressed on a population level." Wexler is with the hospital's diabetes unit and is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School....