Nutrition care and education of the patient with diabetes in the Joslin Clinic

ABSTRACT

The Joslin Clinic has more than eighty years of experience in providing high-quality nutrition care and education to its patients. A widevariety of educational programs, classes, and individual appointmentsare available to patients in order to improve their nutrition and diabetesself-care knowledge. Nutrition care follows the guidelines of theAmerican Diabetes Association as well as the Joslin Diabetes Center’sClinical Nutrition Guidelines. Nutrition professionals in the clinicutilize innovative educational methods tailored to the medication regimensand individual characteristics of the patients to help them optimize their eating patterns and meal planning (AU)