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Thinking of older age and diabetes

Bobby105

Bobby105

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Other
We are thinking of moving ,
a bungalow,; or
a retirement cottage (lunch provided ); or
is it care home
If a bungalow is picked Id like to have some meals delivered for 4 days a week.
If the retirement one the meals wouldn't be diabetic as such, but I could have portion sizes
, I presume care homes provide base meals for diabetics

how do elderly diabetics manage?
Are there any healthy delivery companies?
Note I am type 2 , metforminx2 1 times Levemir. My weight is under 50k, I take cholesterol tabs and blood pressure.
 
Hi @Bobby105 just posting because as an insulin dependent T1 (on a pump) I'm interested in this question for my own future.

My own concern would be if I was unable to physically or mentally handle insulin. (There is a certain amount of physical dexterity required to do a pump set change or an insulin injection and mental dexterity required to operate the pump and/or calculate insulin doses.)

(I know when my mother was in hospital at the end of her life she struggled with insulin management when she was physically too weak to do her own injections because the nursing team were unable to adjust doses, but hopefully this was a one off.)

Healthy is a very difficult question because different people have different dietary needs.... Though at least food delivery companies now usually put nutritional values on their food. (My T2 father used to use Wiltshire farm foods though most of their meals are a little too carby for him now.) The official line on "heathy" food for diabetics is still the eatwell plate I believe, so your chances of getting very "low carb" food may be tricky. Having said that, as you are on insulin, it may be that you can adjust your insulin to cope with whatever diet you decide to follow???

Sorry I can't really answer your questions but will be following your thread with interest.

(Ps this is off topic do I won't be surprised if mods delete it, but I hope you realise that your levemir will need to be changed to a different insulin by the end of next year as levemir is being discontinued. https://www.diabetes.org.uk/about-u...isk-to-withdraw-levemir-what-you-need-to-know)
 
Having had first Covid and then 'flu' I got a delivery from Tesco. It was very easy to do and could help on days where you don't have meals delivered.
I ordered frozen mixed berries and veges, salad stuff, swede, yoghurt, cream, butter, eggs, lard, sugar free jelly, zero sugar squash and fizzy drinks, various packs of meat, chickens, tinned tuna - carby stuff for himself, delivered to the door for £2 as it amounted to more than £50.
It was just a matter of putting some bags by the front door to transfer from the delivery vans boxes.
 
IME you can't trust other individuals to know what a carb is, never mind low carb, but the keto ready meals should do the trick
 
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