The course will focus on the challenges of living with diabetes. In understanding more about diabetes, family and friends will learn how to be supportive and helpful. The following topics will be discussed: diet, medication, healthy lifestyle, progression of diabetes, comorbidities, diabetes technology, complicating situations, problem-solving, and healthy coping.

Instructor: Amy Young is a nurse with a passion for helping people. She has worked as a rehabilitation nurse and a medical-surgical nurse, and Amy was an instructor at Central Pennsylvania Institute of Science and Technology teaching LPN students both in the classroom and at clinical. She is now a clinical diabetes educator for Mount Nittany Physicians Group. Amy loves teaching others how to manage their diabetes. She understands the many difficulties of living with diabetes and is a support to her patients and their families.