Did you know that one in every four seniors lives with diabetes? Diabetes is a chronic disease and often a life-long condition. Diabetes can cause severe health complications and requires careful treatment. Diabetes is a challenge and a risk to seniors, but thankfully managing diabetes is possible. In fact, there are many ways you can manage your diabetes to decrease or avoid altogether the most severe impacts it can have on your life.
Why are elders more at risk of diabetes? One in four elders will be diagnosed with diabetes which is sometimes called a “lifestyle disease”, but that is not always a helpful descriptor. Elders are at a higher risk for diabetes due to ageing, a metabolism that has slowed down significantly since youth, a reduction in physical activity, and weight gain. There are other factors, but these are the most common among elders diagnosed with diabetes.
The good news is you can still enjoy life and live an active life as a senior with diabetes. Diabetes care is a priority for maintaining a happy and healthy quality of life as a senior. Fortunately, there are many ways of managing diabetes and there are resources available to support you and provide quality care. There are health care professionals that can advise you and closely monitor your diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when a person has high blood sugar levels. The high blood sugar levels are caused when the body is not able to produce its own insulin or when the body has developed a resistance to insulin. There are two types of diabetes. Type one is high blood sugar levels caused by the body’s inability to produce its own insulin. Type two diabetes, as mentioned above, is high blood sugar levels caused by the body’s developed resistance to insulin.
Most seniors who suffer from diabetes are diagnosed as type two diabetics. Again, this is when the body has developed a resistance to insulin which causes high blood sugar levels in the individual. Any person over 45 is at an increased risk of developing type two diabetes. Other factors that increase the risk for people over 45, and especially seniors include, but are not limited to: age, reduced activity, poor metabolism, and obesity.
Here are seven ways seniors can manage their diabetes for happy, healthy, and long lives:
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