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Adult diabetes: diagnosis and management of diabetes in the elderly.

Providing good nursing care for the diabetic of any age challenges the nurse to apply a range of knowledge and skills. The unique characteristics and problems of the elderly pose additional complexities when the diagnosis is diabetes mellitus. The increased prevalence of diabetes among the elderly requires nurses to be alert to differences in its detection and management as it affects the older person. And, as more people reach old age and as health care services for the elderly expand, nurses will require updated information to care for older dia-