Diabetes, palliative and end of life care: Information to support shared decision-making
By Trisha Dunning AM FACN, P. Martin, N. Orford and L. Orellana. Diabetes reduces life expectancy. One person with diabetes dies every 6 seconds somewhere in the world.1 Diabetes is linked to 3.7 million deaths per year, globally 2 and it is the underlying or associated cause of deaths due to cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke…