Diabetes Education Programs

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Curriculum for Established Patients

The downloadable articles on this page are designed to reinforce your explanations to your patients about the potentially serious complications of type 2 diabetes. The PDFs provide valuable information regarding specific positive actions patients can take to help manage acute complications, take care of their condition during an illness, and prevent diabetes-related effects on their health.

Additionally, there is practical advice on how to acquire—and maintain—healthy habits. You’ll find other helpful patient support tools available in the Additional Resources section of this Journey for Control site.

Create your customized curriculum

Check the appropriate boxes below to create a customized patient handout that you can distribute at your next session. You can use the Preview link to explore a specific topic in detail.

Select the topics you wish to include:

Managing Acute Complications informs patients about complications of their disease.
 [PDF: 1.58 MB, 3 pages]
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Managing Diabetes During an Illness communicates to patients the critical nature of self-management of their disease when they have other medical ailments and illnesses, such as flu or pneumonia.
 [PDF: 1.16 MB, 2 pages]
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Put Your Best Feet Forward communicates to patients the importance of foot health. It gives tips on how to maintain their feet, avoid potential problems, and use preventive care for good foot health.
 [PDF: 1.10 MB, 2 pages]
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Seeing Your Way to Timely Eye Care informs patients of good health guidelines for taking care of their eyes and vision.
 [PDF: 816 KB, 2 pages]
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Put Your Heart Into Managing Type 2 Diabetes gives an overview of the effects of diabetes on the heart and why it is critically important for people with type 2 diabetes to follow their physician’s treatment plan.
 [PDF: 1.72 MB, 2 pages]
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Healthy Steps You Can Smile About describes good health practices for ensuring that patients with type 2 diabetes know how to maintain healthy teeth and gums while also encouraging proper periodontal care.
 [PDF: 1.99 MB, 1 page]
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Diabetes and Men’s Sexual Health discusses topics such as how diabetes affects circulation and how it may affect sexual function.
 [PDF: 1.37 MB, 2 pages]
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Diabetes and Women’s Sexual Health discusses how diabetes affects women’s sexual health.
 [PDF: 1.43 MB, 2 pages]
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How to Change Habits Successfully introduces patients to basic ways to start to change unhealthy lifestyle habits into good ones to help manage their type 2 diabetes.
 [PDF: 2.12 MB, 1 page]
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Healthy Choices to Break Unhealthy Habits explains to patients why healthy choices are keys to managing their chronic illness. It shows how the daily decisions that patients make can help protect their health.
 [PDF: 0.99 MB, 2 pages]
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Your customized patient handout will appear in a new Web browser window, ready for you to print or save. If you have selected multiple handouts, they will appear as separate pages in the document. To make changes, simply close the PDF window and return to the “Curriculum for Established Patients” page.

 
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