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<blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2686162" data-attributes="member: 150927"><p>When my mother was diagnosed with prediabetes in her 80s she and I had lots of discussion about what she wanted to do about it, if anything.</p><p></p><p>Rather than avoid or cut down the high carb food in her diet (principally bread and weetbix, and cookies and cake, rice, pasta and potatoes) she chose to live with it. I was more distressed than she was, so I went online and looked at the mortality rates of the elderly with elevated blood glucose/prediabetes diagnosed much later life, in terms of going on to diabetes proper and dying of a diabetes complication. I was very happy to find a study that said basically that little time alive as lost to an elderly person developing prediabetes and diabetes proper so late in life. (I think it was pitched in between days and a few weeks.) She was happy to hear it, and as we watch her ever increasing girth getting on to 8 years later, she is more concerned about her appearance than developing the usual range of diabetes complications. (Heart failure being the obvious one to die from, at a ripe old age does not seem tragic? Not to my mother now at any rate....)</p><p></p><p>The biggie for her, and consequently a worry for me, re diabetes complications, is dementia. Of the vascular variety. It wasn't an issue for her back when we originally discussed it, and now, when it is, it is too late. She lives on a dementia ward now in a rest home. The food is non negotiable. (And she forgets she has dementia, of course, let alone prediabetes.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AloeSvea, post: 2686162, member: 150927"] When my mother was diagnosed with prediabetes in her 80s she and I had lots of discussion about what she wanted to do about it, if anything. Rather than avoid or cut down the high carb food in her diet (principally bread and weetbix, and cookies and cake, rice, pasta and potatoes) she chose to live with it. I was more distressed than she was, so I went online and looked at the mortality rates of the elderly with elevated blood glucose/prediabetes diagnosed much later life, in terms of going on to diabetes proper and dying of a diabetes complication. I was very happy to find a study that said basically that little time alive as lost to an elderly person developing prediabetes and diabetes proper so late in life. (I think it was pitched in between days and a few weeks.) She was happy to hear it, and as we watch her ever increasing girth getting on to 8 years later, she is more concerned about her appearance than developing the usual range of diabetes complications. (Heart failure being the obvious one to die from, at a ripe old age does not seem tragic? Not to my mother now at any rate....) The biggie for her, and consequently a worry for me, re diabetes complications, is dementia. Of the vascular variety. It wasn't an issue for her back when we originally discussed it, and now, when it is, it is too late. She lives on a dementia ward now in a rest home. The food is non negotiable. (And she forgets she has dementia, of course, let alone prediabetes.) [/QUOTE]
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