Residents of post-acute and long-term care (PA/LTC) facilities who have diabetes often take multiple medications and experience frequent infections, high rates of cardiovascular complications, dehydration, hospitalizations, hyperosmolar states, and physical and cognitive disability.
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The teaching slides are created for the IDT in language and format that can be easily understood. The challenges of diabetes management in the PALTC setting such as the failure to review glucose logs or the reliance on sliding scale insulin protocols are identified; common co-morbidities are also listed. T...
To examine the incidence of functional or cognitive impairment and its associated factors in a sample of individuals aged 85 years or older with and without diabetes mellitus, who were free of significant impairment at baseline.