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Author: Leslie Workman
Major Program: National Dining with Diabetes
All of Appalachia has health disparities, including chronic diseases of all kinds, obesity and diabetes. In a creative effort to combat those, the Pike County Family and Consumer Sciences Program worked with Pikeville Medical Center and the Pike County Health Department to deliver the Dining with Diabetes curriculum to 19 participants with diabetes. The program included an interactive educational lesson followed by hands-on food
Author: Kelly Burgess
Major Program: National Dining with Diabetes
The median household income and per capita income for Allen County is below the state average, $40,598 and $46,535 (respectively), which is below the national average ($63,179). Income influences health, and we know that diabetes care is expensive. According to a recent county assessment, Allen County residents are concerned about access to quality, affordable health care providers, chronic disease, and affordability of health care insurance. Thirty-nine (39%) percent of Allen
Author: Kayla Watts
Major Program: National Dining with Diabetes
According to the Kentucky Department for Public Health, one in seven Kentucky adults has been diagnosed with diabetes. Breathitt County, which is part of the Kentucky River Area, has upwards of 22 percent of the adult population diagnosed diabetic. Although community members may know the diagnosis or the diagnosis of a loved one, learning how to manage this new lifestyle can be difficult. Providing programming on lifestyle change is important for overall physical, and metal hea
Author: Louis "Jenie" Carter
Major Program: National Dining with Diabetes
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, I gained first hand knowledge about being a caregiver. I was thrust into a whole new world, with my 87 year old Mother. My mother had some underlying health conditions: diabetes, COPD and hypertension and became ill and was hospitalized with pancreatitis. She had a 14 day stay in the hospital. It was very hard due to the pandemic I could not visit her while she was there. Along with the other conditions she had tested positive for the Corona
