We know that providing individual care requires meeting individual needs-health, family, cultural, religious, and dietary. Our unique approach to addressing these needs with specialized services and home health care education has helped to make us a leader in the field of geriatric care.

Our diabetes program is unique in its provision of advanced and specialized diabetes care and education. The goal of diabetic management is to encourage patients to live as independently as possible while safely managing their own diabetic care. Our nurses, working with the patient's physician, provide support, education and assistance to diabetic patients and their families.

Program Goals

• Establish independence and management of diabetes and medications
• Increase patient's ability to control their diabetes
• Encourage patients to have good quality of life with the disease
• Evaluate and instruct for home safety
• Decrease hospitalizations

Diabetes Management Services

• Assessment of patient's condition
• Instruction of patient's and families on monitoring blood glucose levels
• Dietary counseling and meal planning
• Medication teaching
• Awareness of drug interaction
• Treatment of feet and other skin issues
• Circulatory needs
• Meal planning
• Assessment for need of adaptive equipment and occupational therapy
• Coordination of community services

Our Geriatric Care Managers are experienced and trained in diabetes management. Our care managers take a lead role in managing medications, checking glucose levels, designing healthy foods menus, promoting activity. Our care managers also help to solve problems, develop coping mechanisms for living with diabetes, and engage the entire diabetes care team.

Our Caregivers are trained to identify and report symptoms to our professional staff members. The caregivers will perform daily blood glucose checks, prepare healthy menus, encourage daily activity, manage medications and record weight daily.

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