What is a Diabetes Support Group?
A support group for people with diabetes and their loved ones. It can help you learn more about diabetes and offer you emotional and social support to live well with diabetes.It can help you support those you love who have diabetes.
What Can I Learn?
You can learn from diabetes experts, physicians and other people dealing with the disease, about how to better care for yourself. You can also help others by sharing your own experiences.
What kinds of things will we cover?
Many topics of interest will be covered including:
- Diabetes Nutrition
- Carbohydrate Counting
- Foot Care
- Glucose Monitoring
- Preventing Diabetes
- Eye Problems
- Kidney Infections
- Bladder Infections
- Diabetes Medications
- Cooking Modifications
What Does It Take To Be A Good Member?
Willingness to:
- Share
- Listen
- Learn
- Be Supportive
The Diabetes Support Group meets once a month
3rd Monday of
every month, 6pm at
Barrow Regional Medical Center, 3rd Floor
Conference Room
For More Information
Call Helen Mullins
Director, Food & Nutrition Services
Barrow Regional Medical Center
770.307.5236
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