Abstract
The landscape of type 2 diabetes management has changed dramatically in the 32 years since Mario De Luise's 1991 Geriatric Therapeutics paper on ‘Treatment of diabetes mellitus in the elderly’.1 As De Luise predicted, the combined effect of an ageing population and real increases in the age-specific incidence of diabetes has led to a significant impact on the healthcare system. The number of people living with diabetes in Australia increased more than 2-fold between 2001 and 2022, and almost one in five (18.7%) people aged over 75 years now has diabetes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 308-313 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2023 |
Keywords
- aged
- drug therapy
- history of medicine
- prescribing
- type 2 diabetes mellitus
