On The Cutting Edge

Volume 31 Number 2
Spring 2010

Working with Low-income Clients: The Make a DIF Story

Virginia O’Kelly RD, CDE
Columbia Valley Community Health
Wenatchee, WA

Introduction

Providing diabetes education and services during economically difficult times is challenging even for the seasoned educator. Ideas are presented in this article for developing resources that address the needs of people with diabetes in a community health clinic serving primarily low-income Caucasians and Spanish-speaking Hispanic farm workers.

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