Diabetes@Brigstowe
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- Relationship to Diabetes
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Hi all,
In Bristol, we are running a peer mentoring support service for people lining with type 2 diabetes, and our mentors meet up for a group supervision once a month to discuss their experiences of mentoring people who are newly diagnosed, and the issues that they raise.
Our project has a lot of feed in from diabetes clinicians, but I'd love to get some views and opinions from the people on this site about what information about type 2 diabetes you feel a mentor should know in order to support someone newly diagnosed with the condition, to help them understand the importance of managing their health and living healthily in the long term. This can be medical, psychological or social knowledge, and it could feed in to what our mentors are trained in.
Thanks,
Sean
In Bristol, we are running a peer mentoring support service for people lining with type 2 diabetes, and our mentors meet up for a group supervision once a month to discuss their experiences of mentoring people who are newly diagnosed, and the issues that they raise.
Our project has a lot of feed in from diabetes clinicians, but I'd love to get some views and opinions from the people on this site about what information about type 2 diabetes you feel a mentor should know in order to support someone newly diagnosed with the condition, to help them understand the importance of managing their health and living healthily in the long term. This can be medical, psychological or social knowledge, and it could feed in to what our mentors are trained in.
Thanks,
Sean