title: [Nutrition and diabetes in the elderly].
abstract: The aging process conveys multiple changes in the organism, as well as changes in individual's surroundings. Such modifications make the appearance of this sufferance, diagnose, and treatment to be complex and different in the rest of the population. The last makes necessary the coordinated work of the multidisciplinary team, in which the diabetic senior, caretaker, or relative most be actively participants. The success of preventive and curative measures relies in increasing knowledge about health and, life conditions (economic, social, community, family, etc.) of each patient and of the senior population in general; as well as facilitating the patient with information about the means to have a better understanding about the disease, and the available resources for its treatment, and to be aware of the importance of achieving the therapeutic objectives. This last part is particularly important for the nutritional treatment for diabetes, since its objective is the change in the habit, and customs of nutrition, and the physical activity that the patient has realized throughout many years.
authors.affiliation: Clínica de Geriatría, Institute Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Tlalpan, México, DF. lruizar@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Arregui
authors.forename: Ana Bertha
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Pérez-Lizaur
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001823:Body Composition; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000178:diet therapy* / Q000188:drug therapy; D003927:Diet, Diabetic; D004038:Diet, Reducing; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000008:administration & dosage; D019468:Disease Management; D005081:Exercise Therapy; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D050177:Overweight / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010353:Patient Education as Topic
chemical_list: D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004041:Dietary Fats; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents