Glucose Lowering Medicines and  
  Older People with Diabetes: 
  Information for Personal Care Workers
             Glucose Lowering Medicines and 
         Older People with Diabetes: Information for 
                Personal Care Workers
        The third book in a series of three. The titles of the other books are:
           Glucose Lowering Medicines: Information for 
         Older People with Diabetes and their Family Members
                     and
       Glucose Lowering Medicines and Older People with Diabetes: 
           Information for Registered and Enrolled Nurses
       Disclaimer
       Glucose Lowering Medicines and Older People with Diabetes: Information for Personal 
       Care Workers was designed to help Personal Care Workers who work with nurses and older 
       people with diabetes use glucose lowering medicines safely. The information was designed to 
       be used with other relevant guidelines and policies for managing medicines for older people 
       with diabetes. The authors and Expert Advisory Groups who developed the glucose lowering 
       medicines information are not responsible for any actual care provided on the basis of Glucose 
       Lowering Medicines and Older People with Diabetes: Information for Personal Care Workers 
       and disclaim liability and responsibility to any person for the consequences of anything done 
       or omitted by any person relying wholly or partially on the whole or part of the content of the 
       Glucose Lowering Medicines and Older People with Diabetes: Information for Personal Care 
       Workers. 
       It is essential that the information in Glucose Lowering Medicines and Older People with 
       Diabetes: Information for Personal Care Workers is used within local policies, service structures 
       and resources. 
       It is also important that Personal Care Workers only administer medicines if they have completed 
       a certificate 3 or 4 medication administration course.
       Conflict of interest
       The authors and members of the Expert Advisory Group have no conflict of interest to declare 
       with respect to commercial enterprises, governments and non-government organisations. The 
       Australian Government Department of Health funded the development and implementation 
       of the Glucose Lowering Medicine and Older People with Diabetes: Information for Personal 
       Care Workers. No fees were paid to the authors or the Expert Advisory Groups in connection 
       with the Glucose Lowering Medicine and Older People with Diabetes: Information for Personal 
       Care Workers with the exception of Sam Korn who was employed as a Project Manager between 
       January 2014 and June 2015 and Nicole Duggan who was employed as a research assistant 
       throughout the study. 
       Copyright
       All rights reserved. No part of the Glucose Lowering Medicine and Older People with Diabetes: 
       Information for Personal Care Workers can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any 
       means without prior written permission from the authors.
       Recommended citation
       Dunning T, Duggan N, Savage S. (2016) Glucose Lowering Medicines: A Guide for Personal 
       Care Workers, Centre for Nursing and Allied Health Research, Deakin University and Barwon 
       Health, Geelong. 
       ISBN 978-0-9923333-3-1