Peggy Soule Odegard

TL;DR: The American Diabetes Association (ADA) convened a Consensus Development Conference on Diabetes and Older Adults (defined as those aged ≥ 65 years) in February 2012 as discussed by the authors, where a series of scientific presentations by experts in the field were independently developed.

TL;DR: Three universities describe their training curricula models of collaborative and interprofessional education, finding one common theme leading to a successful experience among these three interprofessional models included helping students to understand their own professional identity while gaining an understanding of other professional's roles on the health care team.

TL;DR: This consensus report addresses the following questions raised in a series of scientific presentations by experts in the field and developed this consensus report to address the following issues.

TL;DR: Diabetes educators should be aware of the common barriers to medication taking and provide screening and support to their patients to resolve barriers if they exist and further studies are needed to test specific interventions to improve medication taking in diabetes.

TL;DR: Medication adherence remains an important consideration in diabetes care and intervention trials show the use of phone interventions, integrative health coaching, case managers, pharmacists, education, and point-of-care testing improve adherence.