Health education in elderly patients with the treatment of diabetes.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Health education in elderly patients with the treatment of diabetes [Paper Keywords] health education; elderly; diabetes; self-care [Abstract] the implementation of health education for diabetes patients and their families and development, disease prevention, increased awareness of proper medication, proper monitoring of blood glucose and improve glycemic control ability, in which patients develop treatment programs for medical compliance improved. to integrate theory with practice, so that the patient will apply theoretical knowledge to practice, deepen understanding, learn self-care skills, but also stimulate the enthusiasm of the patient’s active learning, learned a lot of knowledge, the right to face life, positive and optimistic approach to overcome the disease, benefit. 1 Clinical data January 2005 - December 2008 in our hospital over the age of 60 diabetic patients, 56 cases are in line with the World Health Organization (WHO) diagnostic criteria for diabetes, including 38 males and 18 females, aged 60 to 85 years of age; are 2 diabetes. 2 Health Education 2.1 assess the learning needs of patients and their families, learning the system to collect patient admission and the impact on health self-care ability of important information, and collate the information collected for analysis, come to different learning needs of patients and their families are different. Assessment Results: 36 patients with varying degrees of lack of knowledge, the occurrence and development of diabetes, disease prevention, diabetes diet exercise and medication, disease surveillance, lack of knowledge, lack of self-care and self-care knowledge,; 48 patients and their families can not correctly for insulin injections, can not properly be blood sugar, urine sugar determination, not the correct implementation of foot care operations; 32 patients there is haste, anxiety, pessimism, depression and memory loss, or indifferent about the disease.