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Diabetes update: injectable therapies for type 2 diabetes: practical applications for older adults with pancreatic failure.

Raterink G

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, School of Nursing, Campus Box C288-19, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, CO 80262, USA. ginger.raterink@uchsc.edu

The goal of therapy for older adults who have type 2 diabetes and pancreatic failure is to provide the best management program that meets his/her individual needs and lifestyle. The goals are to maintain blood sugar control, but more importantly, to prevent complications and to provide the patient with a better quality of life through a more natural metabolic state. Decisions about when to add insulin to the regimen, the goals of therapy, what types of insulin to use, and how to monitor response are based on the pathophysiologic mechanisms, which ensures overall treatment success. The information that patients gather and record will assist in decisions about therapy that maximize the benefits and eliminate the problems that patients often experience when therapies are modified without a careful plan.

Published 2 February 2007 in Nurs Clin North Am, 42(1): 43-57, vi.
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