Question

For the chronic illness: Diabetes; discuss the progression an older adult may face through the phases of nonfatal, serious, and frailty, using the nursing process. Include a teaching plan for the older adult and their significant others.

Answer 1

Diabetes is a serious disease which comes either through genetic route or is possessed later on. It majorly affects people of older ages.

Our body that makes glucose from the food we eat, needs insulin hormone to use this glucose. Either the body stops making enough insulin or doesn't use insulin in proper way, leading to diabetes. This disease is not treated fastly, thus is becomes chronic. It is of two types including 1. Type l diabetes where the body does not make insulin by itself and an external help in a way of getting syringes or medicines, is required daily to get insulin dose. It develops at very early ages generally under 20 years of age.

2. Type ll diabetes is the condition where the production of insulin is not enough. It is majorly considered at later stages, because earlier it is asymptomatic for many years and later on at older stage it's affects and worsen the body functions.

Diabetes is a progressive disease that increases the affects and gets worsen with time. People taking medicines for diabetes gets many side effects with older age like loss of vision, kidney failure, damage to neurons, heart problems, increased infection rates, etc.

Older people tend to have more stress, lesser activities, and increasing weight issue, etc which lead to diabetes.

In oder to control diabetes, people should work on their weight increase, eliminate sugar and fats from their diets, reduce or finish stress from their lives. And besides this, complete care to be done with proper medications too.