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A paper which looks at the kind of issues which a care plan should incorporate, with regard to patient autonomy and self-care, treatment regimes, and support groups, in respect of a young patient recently diagnosed with insulin dependent diabetes. Bibliography lists 7 sources
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develop an effective care plan for a young person with insulin-dependent diabetes, it is necessary to consider not only the medical parameters of the condition itself, but also the way
in which it can be most successfully managed by the patient themselves, and the ways that family members and other care-givers can offer practical help and support. Since the patient,
Steven, in the case study, is newly diagnosed, the health care practitioner can assume that both he and his family may be quite unfamiliar with both diabetes itself and the
impact which it has on the lifestyle of patient, family and friends. Diabetes UK (2004) point out that the provision of diabetes services tends to be complex, since care is
provided by various professional bodies including GPs, community health workers, diabetes specialists and the patients themselves: good outcomes are therefore very much dependent on such care being effectively integrated.
In type 1 diabetes, a deficiency in the pancreas means that insulin is
either not produced at all, or only in reduced amounts; since insulin is responsible for transmitting blood sugar out of the bloodstream to other cells, an insulin deficiency means too
much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally administered insulin (usually in the form of injections) in
order to compensate for the pancreatic deficiency - the amount of insulin varies depending on the individual case, and some children use a pump rather than hypodermics.
The London Diabetes and Lipid Centre (2004) points out that current technological advances have led
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