Gillian Hawthorne
(Editor)

2012

A Practical Handbook

Diabetes mellitus has reached epidemic proportions and more than half of all people with diabetes in the UK are aged 60 years and over.So the combination of an ageing population with a diabetes epidemic means that older people with diabetes are coping with problems related to the management and treatment of diabetes and at the same time they are also facing an additional burden related to ageing and associated co-morbidities.