J Korean Diabetes JKD The Journal of Korean Diabetes 2233-7431 Korean Diabetes Association 10.4093/jkd.2019.20.1.53 Information Desk Characteristics of the Diabetic Life Cycle Kim Jun Young Department of Social Work, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwaseong, Korea. Corresponding author: Jun Young Kim. Department of Social Work, Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, 7 Keunjaebong-gil, Hwaseong 18450, Korea, k9793jy@naver.com 03 2019 31 03 2019 20 1 53 56 12 02 2019 14 02 2019 Copyright © 2019 Korean Diabetes Association 2019 Korean Diabetes Association This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Diabetes educators need to understand and intervene in various patient situations to help provide education about effective blood glucose management. Diagnosis of diabetes can be traumatic and challenging. Therefore, diabetes educators should educate patients according to their life cycle characteristics.

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