[Kyla Aben]

The importance of regular follow up with health care team, BP monitoring/control, Glycemic monitoring(A1C)/control and making lifestyle modifications. Clients are often reluctant to add more medications to their regimen and changing focus from blood sugars control to possible kidney protection benefits, as adding more medications often causes clients to feel that they “failing” at controlling their blood glucose levels but there can be multiple benefits to making change. Clients have expressed that they feel that their HCP is constantly making medication changes and that they feel these changes are arbitrary, they often do not get the full information before a change is made for them, without their consult.