The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) represents the healthcare professionals who teach people with diabetes, or those at risk of diabetes, how to control the disease through Diabetes Self Management Training and Education (DSMT).

Diabetes educators are healthcare professionals who focus on helping people with, and at risk for, diabetes and related conditions achieve behavior change goals which, in turn, lead to better clinical outcomes and improved health status. Diabetes educators apply in-depth knowledge and skills in the biological and social sciences, communication, counseling, and education to provide self-management education/self-management training.

Diabetes Education is an effective means of controlling diabetes. While the cost of a diabetes education program is less than the average cost of an emergency room visit for an acute diabetes-related complication, many individuals do not even realize they have diabetes until confronted with an acute health episode. Diabetes screening is an essential component of the Medicare program to help identify individuals with diabetes, or those at high risk, so that they may begin to take the right steps to learn how to manage their disease through a DSMT program.

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