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 Diabetes Management Classes
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.