Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy Madison, Mississippi, United States
Current guidelines suggest that older adults with diabetes and cognitive impairment should have less-stringent glycemic goals than their healthier counterparts. While healthier individuals with diabetes should strive to maintain a goal A1C of less than 7%, those with cognitive impairment should maintain a goal of less than 8%. However, practitioners in a clinic may have difficulty identifying those individuals. This poster describes a pilot project to identify associations among hemoglobin A1C, medication therapy that may increase hypoglycemia, number of years having diabetes, and cognitive impairment in a Family Medicine clinic, using a chart review of individuals of 65 years of age or older with diabetes who were given assessments for possible cognitive impairment.
