Tools to Assist: Personal Care Tools for Employees
This section offers people with diabetes the tools to track and manage their disease. There are easy to understand pamphlets and guidelines that outline the recommended tests and care for diabetes and include charts for people to track test results and progress managing their diabetes. Resources specific to people newly diagnosed people with diabetes, children, and the elderly are also included in this section.
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Diabetes Self-Management Information and Record Booklet
This excellent booklet describes the importance of making healthy choices every day to live well with diabetes. It presents recommended health care services that people with diabetes need to stay healthy, including what each services does and why it is important. It also includes space to document diabetes care, self-management goals, and medications.
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Essential Diabetes Mellitus Care Guidelines
This guide is designed to serve as a tool to inform, support, and influence decisions for good preventive diabetes care. It also offers tools to improve communication between health care providers and resources to document care. The Guidelines were created through the Wisconsin Diabetes Advisory Group, which is committed to creating a health care delivery system that provides high quality, patient-centered care on an on-going basis with timely changes in treatment to achieve optimal diabetes management and control.
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Resource Guide for Consumers and Health Professionals
This guide provides a collection of diabetes resources, including Web sites. This resource can be used by people at risk or with diabetes or by any consumer caring for and/or interested in learning about diabetes.
- Choose to Live: Your Diabetes Survival Guide
The American College on Cardiology and the American Diabetes Foundation published "Choose to Live: Your Diabetes Survival Guide" in order to inform people with diabetes about what they need to know about taking care of diabetes. Topics covered include the basics of diabetes, getting the best care, healthy behaviors, meal planning, quitting smoking, blood glucose, foot care, warning signs of heart attack and stroke, and sexuality and pregnancy. This guide includes many helpful charts and guides designed to help people with diabetes track the care they get, test results, medication, diet, and activity levels.
- How Medications Work
This patient-friendly pamphlet describes how medications work.
- Health Benefits for Diabetes Care: Employee Assessment Tool
This worksheet is designed to help employees with diabetes understand how their health plan covers diabetes care. Employers can assist with answering the questions on the worksheet. Multiple worksheets are required if more than one health plan is available.
- Work-site Accommodation Ideas for Individuals with Diabetes
The guide provides information on questions to consider when determining accommodations for individuals with diabetes.
- Diabetes Toolbox—Self-Management
This resource provides information that can lessen the burden of diabetes and help individuals work effectively with their health care team while taking responsibility for their day-to-day diabetes management and control.
- Diabetes Toolbox—Treatment Options
This resource includes information on various treatment options: modifying lifestyle and behaviors, managing diabetes with medications as well as complementary medicines and alternative therapies.
- Resources For Newly Diagnosed Individuals
This document lists resources to help guide recently diagnosed individuals and their families through the physical, social, and emotional aspects of dealing with diabetes.
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Older People with Diabetes
This document is designed to help older people address specific challenges related to their diabetes, such as decreased physical and mental abilities, limited financial resources, and lifestyle changes.
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Children with Diabetes and Their Families
This document lists resources and organizations that can assist children and their families as they learn to cope with, manage and control a child’s diabetes.
- Resources For Women with Gestational Diabetes
This document will help individuals learn about gestational diabetes, its impact on the mother and the baby, and includes resources to help a woman reduce her risk of developing diabetes later in life.