The Family and Friends' Guide to Diabetes : Everything You Need to Know
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If you have a friend or family member with diabetes, you probably feel poorly educated about the disease and uncertain about how you can help your loved one cope. You may believe myths or have outdated information about diabetes. This book offers the up-to-date information you need, written in a question-and-answer format and in a chatty, friendly style. The book starts with the "nitty-gritty details about the disease--what it is and isn't, who gets it, and how it's treated." Then you learn the nutritional guidelines and how to prepare healthy meals for someone with diabetes, how to deal with illness and hyperglycemia, how to plan holiday occasions, and much more.
If you have a diabetic coworker or employee, you'll appreciate the "Creating Positive Work Environments" chapter. A self-assessment test--"Is My Work Environment Diabetes-Friendly?"--helps you look at whether workers have enough break time to take care of diabetes needs, have access to food at different times during the day, and can select low-fat, sugar-free food and beverages from vending machines, for example. This chapter also helps you create a medical emergency plan that covers diabetes needs. --Joan Price
Book Description
Everything You Need to Know
Help and reassurance for everyone who knows, loves, and cares for someone with diabetes.
Diabetes doesnt affect just the person with it. It touches family, friends, and coworkers as well. Without solid information, often those who care for someone with diabetes find the psychological, psychosocial, and financial challenges of the disease confusing, stressful, and even frightening. Here, finally, is a clear, sensitive, and informative guide that tells you what diabetes is and how to cope with it on a daily basis.
Drawing on her personal experience with family members with diabetes as well as her own professional expertise, Eve Gehling has designed The Family and Friends Guide to Diabetes for those who want to learn how to best help someone with diabetes. Learn what diabetes is and how its treated, how you can help your loved one manage low blood glucose and get through periods of illness, how to prepare healthy meals and plan special events with confidence, and how to create positive work and home environments for both the person with diabetes and the family.In addition, this book offers practical, reassuring advice on the important emotional aspects that can affect you, from understanding how youre feeling to coping better with the day-to-day challenges of living or working with someone who has a chronic disease. Written in an easy-to-grasp question-and-answer format and filled with informative sidebars, easy-to-prepare menus, and invaluable tips, The Family and Friends Guide to Diabetes will restore your confidence and help you make a difference in the lives of all those around you.
The Family and Friends' Guide to Diabetes : Everything You Need to Know
The Family and Friends' Guide to Diabetes: Everything You Need to Know,Eve Gehling,Wiley,0471348015,Consumer Health,Diabetes,Diabetics,Diseases - Diabetes,Family relationships,General,Health & Fitness,Health/Fitness,Popular works,Coping with illness,Health & Fitness / Diseases / Diabetes,Popular medicine
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