A salient goal for diabetes care is
to enable each person with diabetes to lead the health-care team involved in the
management of their diabetes
Assessment
of empowerment
Assess whether the person with diabetes :
has the knowledge, behavioural skills, and sense of awareness necessary
for optimum self-care
makes early and effective responses to everyday problems
has the confidence to obtain the best input from the diabetes health-care
team
Achieving
empowerment
Ensure that empowerment is :
a primary objective of your consultations and education programme
supported by availability of diabetes publications and other information
sources
the active policy of your diabetes service
Provide :
positive encouraging responses to requests for information and
understanding
a copy of the European Patients’ Charter or a similar national or
local statement of rights and roles
a copy of the person’s diabetes health-care record
information on the results and meaning of all investigations
It is the right of each person with diabetes to become
empowered to derive the maximum benefit from the health-care system
It is the responsibility of the diabetes team to ensure that the person with diabetes can
follow the life-style of their educated choice, based on the three elements of
empowerment: knowledge, behavioural skills, and self-responsibility
