Diabetes Education

Diabetes classes provide a complete overview of how to live better with diabetes. The instructors are Sondra Boecker, RN CDE, Linda Barhorst, RN CDE, and Dolores Droesch RDLD CDE.

2010 Diabetes Education Class Information

Class Content

On The Road to Better Managing Your Diabetes - Covers the basic concepts needed to understand and manage diabetes.

Diabetes and Healthy Eating - The connection between food and diabetes and the importance of healthy eating as it relates to managing diabetes.

Monitoring Your Blood Glucose - Includes the importance of monitoring blood glucose, managing high and low blood glucose, and how to use the results from monitoring to better manage diabetes.

Continuing Your Journey with Diabetes - Covers more complex concepts related to diabetes including the natural course of diabetes, the many medicine options that exist for people with diabetes today, what insulin is and how it works, long-term complications associated with diabetes, and the ABCs (A1C, Blood Pressure, and Cholesterol).

2010 Diabetes Class Schedule

Daytime Class Schedule (Tuesdays 9AM - Noon)

Class A  (first date of class)

• On The Road to Better Managing Your Diabetes
• Diabetes and Healthy Eating

Class B  (second date of class)

• Monitoring Your Blood Glucose
• Continuing Your Journey with Diabetes

Evening Class Schedule (Tuesday 6PM - 8PM)

Class A  (first date of class)

• On The Road to Better Managing Your Diabetes
• Introduction to Diabetes and Healthy Eating

Class B  (second date of class)

• Diabetes and Healthy Eating (cont.)
• Introduction to Monitoring Your Blood Glucose

Class C  (third date of class)

• Monitoring Your Blood Glucose (cont.)
• Continuing Your Journey with Diabetes

Note: Course content for both classes are the same.  Day classes are 3 hours in length while evening classes are 2 hours in length.

HOW TO ENROLL

To schedule classes, call Central Scheduling at 937-497-5656. The classes are held in the Wilson Medical Building (Door # 4). Signs will be posted.Please note: Minimum of 3 participants are needed to have class. Class will be cancelled one week prior to the first date of the class. If you are unable to attend one of the classes, you may reschedule to a later date.

FOLLOW-UP AND OTHER ISSUES

Information and instruction on specific skills such as special diets, insulin use, monitoring with a glucose meter, and insulin pump therapy may need a one-on-one approach and can be scheduled in addition to class.