American Diabetes Month

By Yvette Williams, Regional Volunteer Manager

While diabetes is a chronic illness and not a terminal diagnosis, unmanaged complications of the disease can lead to a terminal prognosis including end-stage organ damage of the  kidneys, heart and other organs and recurring infections like pneumonia or sepsis. These are indicators of a person’s declining health that may qualify as a terminal prognosis of six months or less if the disease takes its normal course.

Individuals would be eligible for and may choose the hospice benefit when certified by a physician and rather than pursuing curative measures the individual opts for comfort over cure.

To learn more about diabetes, warning signs and symptoms visit https://diabetes.org/.