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A 5 page paper discussing diabetes’ types and the particular problems faced by the older adult in achieving adequate nutrition while also controlling blood glucose with diet. Intervention that seeks to control both diabetes and obesity in the elderly is not an easy task, but it is one that at least is logical. Patient education is paramount, as is visual attractiveness. As older adults lose senses of taste and smell, visual attractiveness can encourage them to eat what they need when they really would rather eat nothing at all. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSdiabOverOlder.rtf
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as 5 percent of the population may be affected by diabetes, although in the late 1980s a survey by the Centers for Disease Control found "The prevalence of self-reported diabetes
ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Regional Variation, 1990) and incidence of new cases has grown in great proportion
since that time. Diabetes is a disease of carbohydrate metabolism in which the sufferer of the disease is unable to absorb glucose from the blood. While those whose
diabetes is controlled do well overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disease, gangrene and heart disease.
Older adults have greater difficulty in keeping both nutrition and blood glucose in line, and need to pay close attention to their diets. The Condition
There are two broad categories of diabetes, Type I, or insulin-dependent diabetes; and Type II, non-insulin-dependent diabetes. Type I formerly was referred to as juvenile diabetes while
Type II was commonly known as adult-onset diabetes. Those distinctions have fallen out of favor of late because either type can strike anyone of any age, though Type II
is by far the most common form of the disease. In addition, it is common for those adults who develop the disease later in life to be able to
control it with a closely-guarded diet but then advance to the point that they require insulin to control their blood sugar levels. In
either type of diabetes, the core problem remains constant. Insulin is a naturally-occurring hormone synthesized in the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas and is
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