About Diabetes Education
This section defines diabetes education, helps people locate a diabetes educator in their area, offers resources to physicians, promotes a team approach to diabetes self-care and provides access to the scope and standards of the profession.
Find a Diabetes Educator
Diabetes educators can be found in many different healthcare settings – hospitals, physician offices, clinics, to name a few. Many are also in private practice. Make an appointment with one in your community today.
Practice Documents
AADE's practice documents inform and support the practice of diabetes education. They include official documents such as position statements; white papers; the Guidelines for Practice of Diabetes Education and supporting Competencies for Diabetes Educators; the Scope of Practice, Standards of Practice, and Standards of Professional Performance for Diabetes Educators; and the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education.
Patient Resources
Learn more about good diabetes management using the AADE7 Self-Care Behaviors (healthy eating, being active, monitoring, taking medication, problem solving, reducing risks and healthy coping) and working side-by-side with a diabetes care team. View videos on the 7 behaviors, download a useful guidebook and read the diabetes education patient blog.
Physician Resources
Diabetes education leads to improved clinical outcomes. This link provides physicians with a referral form for diabetes education, as well as medical nutrition therapy.
Definitions
Understand the elements of diabetes education, and learn more about the role of diabetes educators.
Fact Sheets
Get the facts about diabetes and diabetes education.