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• Article - How to Help Your Parent With Diabetes Follow Medication Recommendations

  Strategies to help you help your elderly parent take their diabetes medications on time and consistently.

• Article - 8 Ways to Help Your Parent With Diabetes Handle Sick Days

  Eight tips to help your parent with type 2 diabetes deal with illnesses.

• Article - 3 Acute Diabetes Complications You Can Help Your Parent Avoid

  Find out how to help your parent with type 2 diabetes avoid short-term complications such as low or high blood sugar (hypo- or hyperglycemia).

Blog Posts

• Blog Post - Got a Parent With Diabetes? Chew on This

  A new chewing gum, infused with the widely-prescribed diabetes drug metformin, is in development.

Questions & Answers

• Question - Can the new drug Symlin help my overweight dad with diabetes?

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• Question - Should my dad, who’s scheduled to have an operation unrelated to his diabetes, keep up his normal diabetes routine?

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• Question - Does it matter when my dad takes his diabetes pills?

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