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Approach Toward Diabetes Treatment in the Elderly.

Sisli Etfal Hastan Tip Bul

June 2019

Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Health Sciences Sisli Hamidiye Etfal Training and Resarch Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.

Concomitant diseases in elderly individuals with diabetes (renal failure, heart failure, ischemic heart disease, stroke, urinary incontinence, cognitive impairment, dementia, sarcopenia, and osteoporosis) make diabetes management difficult. Therefore, other comorbid conditions should be taken into account in elderly diabetics when considering a treatment approach. The use of oral antidiabetic agents in individuals older than 75 years may be limited.

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