PRHC's Adult Diabetes Education Centre (ADEC) has been operating since June 1995, providing education services for the Peterborough community and surrounding areas.
PRHC's Pediatric Diabetes Education Centre (PDEC) has been operating since January 1998 providing ongoing education and support to children and their families.
What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a condition in which the body either cannot produce insulin or cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.
TYPE 1 DIABETES (or insulin-dependent diabetes) occurs when the pancreas no longer produces any or very little insulin. The body needs insulin to use sugar as an energy source. Type 1 Diabetes usually develops in childhood or adolescence and affects 10% of people with diabetes.
TYPE 2 DIABETES (or non-insulin-dependent diabetes) occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin to meet the body's needs or the insulin is not used effectively. Type 2 usually occurs later in life and affects 90% of people with diabetes. In recent years there has been an increase in Type 2 diabetes in children.
The DEC provides counseling to persons with Type 1, Type 2, and Gestational Diabetes (diabetes during pregnancy), over the age of 18, interested family members as well as other health professionals. PDEC provides counseling and ongoing support to those under the age of 18 with diabetes.
Clinic Staff includes:
Registered Nurses and Registered Dietitians who have been certified as Diabetes Educators by the Canadian Diabetes Education Certification Board. They work as Team Members, along with physicians to offer the "Tools", (e.g., Advice regarding meal planning, exercise, blood sugar monitoring and use of oral medication/insulin), which encourage self-care management of diabetes.
Service Description:
Outpatient diabetes education resource centre offering:
- Individual instruction, (one to one basis, with a Registered Nurse/Registered Dietitian)
- Group Sessions (allows the client the opportunity to learn from and with others, who also have diabetes)
- Instruction for clients diagnosed with Impaired Fasting Glucose (IGF) or Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT)
- Initiation of insulin, (includes preparation and administration using insulin pens, pumps and conventional syringes, along with prevention and management of hypoglycemia)
- Gestational Counseling (information given for diabetes during pregnancy, which includes meal planning, blood sugar monitoring, insulin initiation as directed by physician, and follow up .)
- PDEC offers clinics with a multi disciplinary team, a Pediatrician who specializes in Diabetes, Registered Nurse, Registered Dietitian and a Social Worker. Each child or adolescent is seen a minimum of 4 times a year in clinic to address the challenges of managing diabetes through each stage in a child's life.
- Self-referral
- Physician referral
All individual and group sessions provide opportunity for follow up visits.
Physician referral required.
Hours:
Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm
Contact:
Phone: 705- 740-8324
Fax: 705-740-8032
Email: dcstaff@prhc.on.ca |
Hours:
Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 am to 4:30
Contact:
Phone: 705-740-8055 or 1-866-882-3691
Fax: 705-740-8004
Email: nking@prhc.on.ca |
Related Links
- http://www.diabetes.ca
- http://www.ianblumer.com
- American Diabetes Association
- Joslin Clinic
- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
- www.insulin-pumpers.ca
- www.hc-sc.gc.ca
- www.dietitians.ca
- www.canadian-health-network.ca
- Sick kids
- www.womenshealthmatters.ca
- Heart and Stroke