Diabetes is a disease that affects a roughly 1.25 million Americans. The number of American’s with diabetes continues to expand with roughly 1.7 million new Americans being diagnosed each year. Roughly twenty-five percent of the 1.7 million newly diagnosed diabetics every year are people over the age of sixty-five (diabetics.org, 2014). Over the next fifteen years, as the baby boomer generation begins reaching the age of sixty-five and older, the percentage of elderly diagnosed diabetics will increase. Often, diabetics are seen in the hospital repeatedly due to not controlling their diabetes, which can lead to a variety of other complications. However, proper management of diabetes can decrease the risk of comorbidities as well as aid in the overall stratification of life.
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Past research has discovered that people who adjust their lifestyle can slow the progression of their illness and also tend to require less insulin and/or oral diabetic medication than people who have a sedentary lifestyle. However, many doctors and other health care staff do not talk to the elderly population about controlling their diabetes with diet and exercise. Instead it is assumed that the elderly population would be noncompliant with any diabetic regiment other than taking
Past research has discovered that people who adjust their lifestyle can slow the progression of their illness and also tend to require less insulin and/or oral diabetic medication than people who have a sedentary lifestyle. However, many doctors and other health care staff do not talk to the elderly population about controlling their diabetes with diet and exercise. Instead it is assumed that the elderly population would be noncompliant with any diabetic regiment other than taking