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Clinicians managing diabetes in any adult, woman, or child need to implement a chronic disease approach, understanding the connections and impact between the person and the disease. For the older population, we require to magnify these considerations, providing a team effort that engages the older patient (and family/caregivers as applicable) while offing a geriatrics approach to the individual, not just the disease. To successfully accomplish this goal, we need to incorporate the four geriatric domains (medical, functional, mental, and social), which are intertwined, impacting each other, modifying clinical and personal factors that will impact the decisions for individualized targets and strategic interventions. This chapter addresses the complex scenario of diabetes in the older adult, the need for a comprehensive geriatric assessment, geriatric domains associated with diabetes, and patient-centered outcomes that are relevant to the older population with diabetes.

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  1. ABIM Internal Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Willy Marcos Valencia-Rodrigo

  2. Miami VA Healthcare System – Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), Miami, FL, USA

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  3. Florida International University – Department of Humanities, Health and Society, Miami, FL, USA

    Willy Marcos Valencia-Rodrigo

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Valencia-Rodrigo, W.M. (2019). The Elderly with Diabetes. In: Rodriguez-Saldana, J. (eds) The Diabetes Textbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11815-0_62

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