Shuang Wang, Junkun Zhan, Mei Cheng, Qi Pan, Zhen Liang, Xiaohong Liu, Wen Peng, Xiaopei Cao, Yingquan Luo, Dongmei Kang, Youshuo Liu
With the demographic changes, more and more elderly people have chosen to spend their retirement life in a senior care facility. The elderly people in senior care facility are commonly suffering from various geriatric syndromes, including declined daily living activities, cognitive dysfunction, frailty, comorbidities, and polypharmacy, which make them vulnerable to adverse effects, like hypoglycemia and fall. Therefore, layered management is necessary for this population with group disparities. However, the staff in senior care facility vary greatly in concepts and skills on management of senile diabetic population, which needs urgently to be standardized and improved...
June 2021: Aging medicine