Diabetes in old age 3e provides guidance best practice points and key learning outcomes in each area covered and identifies the published evidence base for each major conclusion different approaches to optimising diabetes care in the community primary care and secondary care health care arenas are presented. Most areas of care in diabetes are relevant to all age groups but there are some specific changes due to growing older which might affect your diabetes food choices in some cases dietary advice for the older person with diabetes may differ from general recommendations older people in care homes are often more likely to be underweight than overweight and there is a high rate of undernutrition. Diabetes in old age practical diabetes wiley 2009 05 26 3 hardcover usedgood. Diabetes in old age second edition editors alan j sinclair paul finucane practical diabetes international november december 2001 author bios alan j sinclair diabetes research unit academic department of geriatric medicine and gerontology the