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EdHealth AUSTRALIA

Diabetes 4 Disability ... Tackling diabetes health and wellbeing of people with a disability

EDHEALTH AUSTRALIA

Diabetes 4 Disability (D4D) Capability Framework ...

... delivers equitable access to quality and safe diabetes care for people with a disability.

Inclusive Diabetes Support

EdHealth's diabetes support solutions break down barriers and build opportunities for NDIS participants to be actively involved in their diabetes care. Our Registered Nurse Credentialled Diabetes Educators focus on each person's disability, their circle of support and diabetes care needs. We set everyone involved for diabetes care success.

Quality and safe disability support ...

... is possible with D4D because it is focused on the person with a disability, their healthcare, support workers, disability organisation and the NDIS.

D4D Training

EdHealth Australia partners with disability organisations to prepare their support workers for quality and safe diabetes support. The Diabetes 4 Disability online training consists of modules that we bring together to match each NDIS participant's type of diabetes, medication treatments and diabetes equipment. Organisations need training that sets their support workers for success and mitigates risk inherent in high intensity support.

D4D Diabetes Management Plans ...

... provide support workers with the information they need to support each person with their specific diabetes care. Each DMP provides the advice required for a person with diabetes to care for their chronic health condition, no matter where they are. Each DMP includes picture resources and is written in an easy to read style, focused on the actions required, especially when English is not the first language of many support workers. Our approach maintains consistency in the delivery of support and reassurance for the person with diabetes and the disability organisation, the support workers know what to do when glucose levels are low or high, if they are sick or need emergency care.

Low Literacy Support ...

... opens up the capacity of the person with a disability and their support workers to do the many tasks required in a person's daily diabetes care. No matter if it is glucose monitoring, sub-cutaneous injections, sick day management or what to do when glucose levels are low or high, our picture resources complement the written information to set people for diabetes success.

Consulting supports quality and safety

EdHealth's Director, Jayne Lehmann, is a highly sought after consultant to government and the disability and health sectors. She is acknowledged as providing valuable insights and recommendations for the development of quality and safe diabetes care policy development within disability organisations.

Jayne is regularly included in research and project advisory groups across Australia. Her ability to address both the lived experience of disability and diabetes health care support, has been said to bring a power boost to consultations and projects, such is the depth of her capacity to understand and deliver insights to shape projects and outcomes. A strength of Jayne's input is her ability to assess and identify innovative and practical solutions to complex issues related to the delivery of quality and safe diabetes care, education and disability support to people with an intellectual or other cognitive disability.

EdHealth's Shop ...

... delivers ready made picture resources for low literacy Education and support for individual health professionals or disability organisations to use in their work with people with diabetes and low literacy.

Check, Think & Act Individual 3 Resource Pack
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D4D Blogs inform and inspire

Step into Our Knowledge Hub and explore a range of topics related to diabetes and disability.

EDHEALTH AUSTRALIA

"We want people with a disability to be able to care for their diabetes like those without a disability."

Jayne Lehmann, Director EdHealth Australia

Acknowledgement of Country

We gratefully acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which we live and work in today, the Kaurna (gar-nah) and Ngarrindjeri (ngar-rind-jer-i) peoples. We pay our respects to the resilience, strength and wisdom of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past and present, across the nation.

We recognise the importance of yarning and deep listening to respectfully walk together to plan ways to improve the impact of diabetes on our First Nation peoples.