Special Considerations in Older Adults With Diabetes: Meeting the Challenge
- Alan J. Sinclair, MSc, MD, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lond)
Abstract
In Brief
Clinicians who manage older people with diabetes require special skills if they wish to provide high-quality care. Their approach is influenced by a multitude of factors, such as the higher frequency of medical comorbidities, frailty, and socioeconomic issues. Comprehensive geriatric assessment is a potentially important tool in ensuring that patients with diabetes receive a multiprofessional assessment of their functional status and unmet needs. Effective goal setting provides an additional means of confirming that therapeutic approaches are on target.
Footnotes
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Alan J. Sinclair, MSc, MD, FRCP (Edin), FRCP (Lond), is a professor of medicine and consultant diabetologist in the Diabetes Research Unit at Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School at the University of Luton in the United Kingdom.
- American Diabetes Association
