Diabetes Education in Abu Dhabi: Self-Management Support at HealthPlus

Diabetes education helps people build the knowledge, practical skills and confidence needed to manage diabetes in everyday life. At HealthPlus Diabetes & Endocrinology Center in Abu Dhabi, diabetes educators support people with type 1, type 2 and diabetes in pregnancy, working alongside the wider diabetes care team. Education can include glucose monitoring, medicines, insulin, nutrition, diabetes technology, problem-solving and complication prevention.

Symptoms and Situations Where Diabetes Education Can Help

Diabetes education is useful at diagnosis and throughout life with diabetes, not only when symptoms occur. You may benefit from support if you:

  • Are newly diagnosed or unsure how to manage diabetes day to day

  • Have frequent high or low glucose readings

  • Find glucose targets difficult to achieve

  • Are starting insulin, continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) or an insulin pump

  • Need help with food, carbohydrate counting or physical activity

  • Are preparing for pregnancy or managing diabetes during pregnancy

  • Want to understand how to reduce the risk of diabetes complications

  • Are moving through a change in treatment, school, work, travel or daily routine

Current diabetes guidelines recommend diabetes self-management education and support throughout the diabetes journey, rather than only when problems develop.

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Causes and Risk Factors for Difficult Diabetes Self-Management

Diabetes is a complex long-term condition that requires many decisions outside the clinic. Glucose levels can be affected by food, activity, medicines, illness, stress, sleep and changes in routine. Treatment can become more demanding when insulin, CGM or pump technology is introduced.

Education helps identify practical barriers and turns a medical treatment plan into manageable daily actions. Current diabetes standards recommend diabetes self-management education and support at diagnosis, when treatment goals are not being met, when complicating factors develop and during important transitions in life or care.

Diabetes Education Assessment and Planning

A diabetes educator does not replace your diabetologist or endocrinologist. The educator works with you and the clinical team to understand your treatment plan, glucose patterns, medicines or insulin, monitoring method, nutrition, lifestyle and areas where you need more confidence.

At HealthPlus, support can include reviewing glucose meter, CGM or pump information; teaching diabetes technology; carbohydrate-counting guidance; insulin-related education; and helping patients develop realistic self-management goals. Education is personalised according to diabetes type, treatment, age, lifestyle and individual needs.

Diabetes Education and Self-Management Support

HealthPlus diabetes education may include:

  • Understanding type 1, type 2, prediabetes and diabetes in pregnancy

  • Blood glucose monitoring and interpreting glucose patterns

  • CGM education and device support

  • Insulin injection education and day-to-day insulin management

  • Insulin pump training, specialist workshops and pump-related support

  • Carbohydrate counting and practical nutrition education

  • Recognising and responding to hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia

  • Education for children, adolescents and families, including special programmes and workshops

  • Screening awareness, lifestyle guidance and self-care to reduce complication risk

HealthPlus currently states that its insulin pump programme includes 24-hour phone assistance for pump-related complications. The wider center also provides specialist care for foot, kidney, nerve and retinal complications. Diabetes education supports prevention and timely referral; diagnosis and treatment of these complications remain with the appropriate clinical specialist.

Diabetic foot care and podiatry

Kidney Care & Nephrology

Diabetes care and treatment

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When Should You See a Diabetes Educator?

You can see a diabetes educator after diagnosis, when medicines or insulin change, when starting CGM or pump therapy, or whenever diabetes feels difficult to manage. Education is also valuable for recurrent low or high glucose, carbohydrate-counting support, pregnancy planning, or improving confidence with daily self-care.

You do not need to wait until diabetes is poorly controlled to benefit from education.

Meet our Diabetes Educator Mai Yaghi

Meet our diabetes care team

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Why Choose HealthPlus for Diabetes Education in Abu Dhabi?

HealthPlus provides diabetes education within its Diabetes & Endocrinology Center, allowing educators to work alongside diabetes and endocrinology specialists, dietitians and other services involved in diabetes care.

HealthPlus lists Mai Yaghi, Diabetes Educator, whose profile includes diabetes self-management, CGM and insulin-pump education, insulin adjustment, diabetes in pregnancy and carbohydrate counting. Nadine Hilal, Dietician and Diabetes Educator, has postgraduate training in diabetes care and education and insulin-pump training.

Book an Appointment

If you have recently been diagnosed, are starting diabetes technology or want practical help managing diabetes with greater confidence, book an appointment with the Diabetes Education service at HealthPlus Diabetes & Endocrinology Center in Abu Dhabi.

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Frequently Asked Questions

A diabetes educator helps people understand and manage diabetes in everyday life. Support may include glucose monitoring, medicines, insulin, nutrition, carbohydrate counting, preventing high and low glucose, and using diabetes technology. The educator works with the wider diabetes care team rather than replacing the doctor managing medical treatment.

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