To empower frail older adults (aged 65 years and over) with Type 2 diabetes to improve their health and quality of life through diet and lifestyle. 

The target group will know:

• What diabetes is.
• How to eat for health with diabetes and the importance of diet in improving quality of life.
• How to recognise the symptoms of hypoglycaemia.
• It is important to visit their diabetes clinic regularly for monitoring.
• When and where to seek further help and support.

• ESPEN practical guideline: Clinical nutrition and hydration in geriatrics. Clinical Nutrition (2022).
• BDA Older People Specialist Group Guiding Food Principles (2018).
• NICE Clinical Guideline (CG32) Nutrition support for adults: oral nutrition support, enteral tube feeding and parenteral nutrition (2006).
• NICE Quality Standard (QS24) Nutrition support in adults (2012).  
• Baldwin C, Weekes CE. Cochrane Review (2011). Dietary Advice with or without oral nutrition supplements for disease-related malnutrition in adults.  
• Poscia A et al (2018) Effectiveness of nutritional interventions addressed to elderly persons: umbrella systematic review with meta-analysis. European Journal of Public Health. 28(2):275-283.  
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• Managing Malnutrition in the Community. Malnutrition Pathway. 2nd Edition 2017. 
• SACN Vitamin D & Health Report 2015.  
• The Nutrition and Hydration Digest (2019). 
• Diabetes UK. Good Clinical Practice Guidelines for Care Homer Residents with Diabetes (2010). 
• Diabetes UK. End of Life Diabetes Care. Clinical Care Recommendations. Third Edition (2018). 
• Diabetes UK. Evidence based nutrition guidelines for the prevention and management of diabetes (2018). 
• International Diabetes Federation. Managing Older People with Type 2 Diabetes: Global Guidelines (2013).  
•  Systematic review of the evidence for a liberalized diet in the management of diabetes mellitus in older adults residing in aged care facilities. (2015).  
•  Type 2 diabetes self-management barriers in older adults: an integrative review of the qualitative literature. (2019). 
• Diabetes mellitus in older people: a position statement on behalf of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG), the European Diabetes Working Party for Older People (EDWPOP), and the International Task Force of Experts in Diabetes. J Am Med Dir Assoc. (2012).   
• Management of diabetes in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities: A position statement of the American Diabetes Association. (2016).  
• NICE Guidelines (NG28). Type 2 Diabetes in Adults: Management (2015). https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng28/resources/type-2-diabetes-in-adults-management-pdf-1837338615493 
• NICE Guidelines (NG17). Type 1 Diabetes in Adults: Diagnosis and Management (2015). https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng17 
• Diabetes UK. Position Statement on diabetic foods (2016).