The 'Forgotten' Care Issues for Older People with Diabetes

Dear Colleagues,

Diabetes care and education are well described in many guidelines and other publications but they often do not include the important issues listed below—the ‘forgotten’ issues.

This Special Issue will commence with an overview of the association between ageing and diabetes, highlighting the significant variations among individuals and the fact that chronological age is not a good basis for care. Other chapters will include:

• Older people’s need for respect, dignity, and acknowledgement of personhood, and how these states can be enhanced or preserved.
• Strategies for communicating with older people with diabetes considering health literacy, changing cognition, and stress situations.
• Integrating general health care, e.g., health screening and vaccinations, falls, infections with usual diabetes care guidelines and controlling hypo- and hyperglycaemia.
• Infection—still an issue in many countries. Also, people with diabetes are at increased risk of intercurrent infections.
• Significant transitions that occur in older age and have personal and social consequences, such as loss of independence when the person can no longer drive or goes into an aged care home.
• Care issues in aged care homes
• Family carers’ needs
• Planning for palliative and end-of-life care, and the challenge of prognostication
• Specific issues such as diabetes-related continence

Prof. Dr. Trisha L. Dunning
Guest Editor

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• Older people
• Diabetes
• Care transitions
• Family carers
• Personalised care planning