Diabetes Services
Learn How to Self-Manage Diabetes
Learning how to manage diabetes is the most critical component of caring for yourself after you’ve been diagnosed. Diabetes can result in serious health complications if a person does not understand how to care for themselves. At Methodist Charlton Medical Center, our diabetes education services can help you prevent or delay diabetes-related problems like heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, amputations, erectile dysfunction, and blindness.
In our FREE diabetes education course, you will learn:
- How to build a diabetes friendly diet
- How diabetes works and what you can do to keep it under control
- Wound prevention and care
- Fun ways to stay active
- The long-term complications of diabetes and how to prevent them
- How to manage stress
- Where you can find community support resources
When you have diabetes your health care team is very important; however, most of the time you will be responsible for your own care.
Attend a diabetes support group
The evidence identifies peer support groups for people with chronic diseases like heart disease and diabetes as a valuable tool. Study after study continues to reinforce these groups as beneficial. (Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists) – ADCES, 2021 https://www.diabeteseducator.org/
Contact: 214-947-6943 or email Charla Amos at charlaamos@mhd.com
Free and open to the public. No reservations are required.