Mar 20, 2015 by admin Comments are off A new research mission devoted to the study of diabetes and related metabolic diseases and their association with frailty has been launched. Professor Alan Sinclair has opened up The Foundation of Diabetes Research in Older People to conduct high-quality research into the relationship between diabetes and frailty. […]
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OPDN Patients Forum
Welcome to the Diabetes Frail Patients Forum. Feel free to post any questions you have which will then be seen by Prof Sinclair and the wider professional community who will be able to help. Search for: Homepage › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness OPDN Patients Forum 0 0 No Topics Login Log In Username: […]
DIABFRAIL LATAM
The project, Diabfrail-Latam (Scaling-up of and evidence-based intervention programme in older people with Diabetes and Frailty in LatinAmerica) is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825546. It has been inspired by the aim of scaling-up an evidence-based programme for highly vulnerable older […]
Exercise
As you get older, it becomes increasingly important to maintain an active lifestyle in order to remain healthy and maintain independence. Despite this, low levels of physical activity are reported among older people, with only 30% of people aged >65 years reporting regular exercise. Remaining as active as possible will enable older people to continue […]
Introduction to frailty
Frailty is an established concept which provides the basis of many of the studies that Diabetes Frail and its associated partners in the consortium are involved with. Frailty is an age-associated syndrome characterised by an increased vulnerability to minor stressors, increasing the risk of adverse outcomes such as disability, falls and death. The diagnosis of […]
Care home diabetes education for clinicians and health care assistants
Learn from a world-leading expert Professor Alan Sinclair has developed an impressive track record of diabetes research and education for care home settings and will be announcing shortly his plans for providing a fit-for-purpose, tailored and high quality diabetes and educational platform on care home diabetes suitable for all grades of clinicians and care home […]
Launch of the Foundation for Diabetes Research in Older People at Diabetes Frail
Feb 05, 2015 by admin Comments are off Following a meeting of the Directors and a review of current activity, it has been agreed that diabetes Frail will officially launch the Foundation in March 2015 in London at a venue close to the location of the Spring meeting of Diabetes UK. The Foundation will become […]
European Union Research Projects
OPDN and research update from Professor Alan Sinclair
Jun 26, 2020 by admin Comments are off Dear Colleagues It is our hope that we will be able to hold the deferred 2020 OPDN meeting at King’s College, London later this year. If the COVID-19 restrictions have been sufficiently lifted to allow us to host the event, we will confirm in September . The purpose […]