Question

You are working in a senior center. The primary population served in this center are those who have suffered a stroke in the past and required some sort of rehabilitation during recovery. The clients may or may not still have some sort of neurological deficits (think eating, fine motor skills or mobility).   You have determined that this ADA risk test would be useful to use in your clinic. You will need to develop educational materials to be included in this risk reduction program. Describe two types of educational materials you will develop and why the materials are needed for this population.

Answer 1

ADA Risk Test

The ADA diabetes risk test is a tool used to educate the public about diabetes and to enhance a person at risk to seek for further investigation and management.

Purpose:-

A tool that helps to assess and identify the individual with pre-diabetes and diabetes mellitus type 2. It is based on scoring whether to rule out the above risk.

Method:-

A group of people or an individual is taken as a sample, they will be given a paper and a pensile. Some questions will be asked to them, they will answered. According to that score will be calculated.

Education:-

1.The individual has to be educated regarding the complication of diabetes mellitus.

2. Chance to have education and management or maintenance of sugar levels with diet control.

Why the materials are needed for the population.

• In this case, as the public is facing with stock which can be the complication of diabetes.
• In other way, to rule out DM as the cause of stroke.

Conclusion

To summarise, the ADA Risk Test us done to prevent or rule out the chances of DM or to find type 2 diabetes in the population.